Video Games and the NY Video Festival

Incognitius writes "The NYT (free reg. req.) has an article on the New York Video Festival's presentation of video games as an outpost of abstraction, eccentricity and avant-gardism. Various artists have used video games to make elaborate dramatic movies. In 'My Trip to Liberty City,' for example, Jim Munroe turns 'Grand Theft Auto III' into a comic travel diary, in which he chooses the 'skin' of a Canadian tourist and blithely ignores the criminal inducements that are the whole point of the game. Cartridge hacking, 'Halo,' and other elements of the gaming world are also mentioned, illustrating the amazing range of video games today."

No-reg link!

[Anonymous Coward]

No-reg link [nytimes.com].

Re:Don't support NYT, read it here!

[malakai]

If you like the article why not support the NY Times? They aren't publicly funded, they do have expenses and someone has to pay the journalist.

If everyone were to think like you, and withold support to companies that provide legitimate well liked services, capitalism would fail. You are essentially stealing any potential ad revenue the NYT would have received when parties interested in this article went over to read it.

-malakai

What the....

[Munk]

...how can you mention game engine videos and leave out Red vs Blue [redvsblue.com] and the Blood Gulch Chronicles.

Don't get me wrong. Randy Glass is the godfather of Halo movies, but Red vs Blue took it to an entirely new level. Heck, those guys were even invited to go to the conference and made a special video [o1.com] for it. This is just blasphemous.

Re:What the....

[zephc]

I was just going to mention them, I'm glad you did (as you seemed to have provided more info than I knew about)

R v B is hilarious, a great serial comedy, and i look forward to its progress

Re:Not fun at all

[Goat In The Shell]

Don't know if you're trolling or not AC, but I watched that Jim Munroe GTA film a while back and have to agree, it's really not interesting or "comic."

It's basically just in-game footage lifted from the pc version of GTA3, with some bland voice-over. It's nowhere near as funny as some of the machinima and other stuff floating around.

Strange, because his site, No Media Kings [nomediakings.org], actually looks like it's got some semi-interesting content; sort of a hodge-podge of modern consumer culture satire and other assor

Piece on Machinima.com

[TheNomad]

Paul Marino of the Ill Clan [illclan.com] also wrote a piece on this program, which you can find here [machinima.com].

There's a little stuff on RvB there, as well as details on the Ill Clan's Machinima ballet (!) piece.