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Deep Play (2007) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB
Deep Play
director: Harun Farocki
Harun Farocki’s work Deep Play is made up of various perspectives on the final of the 2006 World Cup.
The Drone Is The Message (2020) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB
The Drone Is The Message
director: Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman
The Drone is the Message. It's not the laptop nor phone that best typifies our relationship to the internet. It's the drone.
Fourth Era (2018) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB
Fourth Era
director: Aaron Berry
In fifteen shots, all but one running for 90 seconds, the audio-visual landscapes of a video game are examined as its day-night cycle mimics passing time, and the radiant AI of its characters creates the illusion of free will.
Speed Racer (2008) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Speed Racer
director: Lana Wachowski / Lilly Wachowski actor: Emile Hirsch / Christina Ricci
Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities.
It is Night in America (2022) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban
É Noite na América
director: 安娜·瓦斯
other title: 美洲夜降临 / É Noite na América
It is Night in America is a film in progress recorded at Brasilia’s Zoo, habitat of hundreds of rescued species in the city. Giant anteaters, maned wolves, owls, wood foxes, capybaras and caracaras meet with biologists, veterinarians, caretakers and the environmental police in a sombre plot where the challenges of preserving life in the face of extinction weave a web of intersecting perspectives. In this iteration, the film expands into poetry, archive, short stories and conversations in an illusionistic diorama where we both see and are seen. In the end, who are the real captives?
Feels Good Man (2020) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Feels Good Man
director: Arthur Jones actor: Matt Furie / Aiyana Udesen
When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt Furie, fights to bring Pepe back from the darkness and navigate America's cultural divide.
Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen (1983) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
Réassemblage
director: T. Minh-ha Trinh
other title: 重组 / Réassemblage
TRINH T. Minh-ha′s first 16mm piece. Reassemblage is an ethnographic film that sharply reflects and criticizes the perspectives of conventional ethnographic films. Director reframes and recombines the sounds and landscapes of Senegal and disposes of the meanings given to those images.
Landscape Suicide (1987) [Movie] TMDB
Landscape Suicide
director: James Benning actor: Rhonda Bell / Elion Sucher
Benning continues his examination of Americana in this film through the stories of two murderers. Ed Gein was a Wisconsin farmer and multiple murderer who taxidermied his victims in the 1950s. Bernadette Protti was a California teenager who stabbed a friend to death over an insult in 1984.
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004) [Movie] TMDB
Los Angeles Plays Itself
director: Thom Andersen actor: Encke King / Ben Alexander
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and meticulously, judiciously revealing the real city that lives beneath.
After Yang (2022) [Movie] Douban IMDb NeoDB TMDB
After Yang
director: Kogonada actor: Justin H. Min / Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja
other title: A Vida Depois de Yang / Despidiendo a Yang
When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.
This is Not a Game (2021) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB
這不是一場遊戲
director: Angela Su
other title: 這不是一場遊戲
Angela Su’s fictional artist Rosie Leavers is the last remaining person to upload her consciousness to a video game. Contemplating during a pandemic year which also saw people’s resistance movements in many parts of the world, the work pinpoints the uncanny affinities between gaming and warfare strategies. They have mutually informed the infrastructure of both worlds since time immemorial when diplomatic conflicts played out on the battlefield of the 64 squares of a chess board to flight simulation technologies which were adapted to shape gaming experiences as we know it now. When the conflict is between the state and its people, she speculates that gaming strategies empower civilians in resistance movements to counter imperialism through its own operative logic. But once we upload our consciousness, are we able to return to the sensibilities and political motivation that inspired the revolution to begin with?
Arnold Schoenberg, op. 11 - I - Cute Kittens (2009) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB
Arnold Schoenberg, op. 11 - I - Cute Kittens
director: Cory Arcangel
Drei Klavierstuke is a recreation of Arnold Schoenberg’s 1909 op. 11 Drei Klavierstücke (aka Three Piano Pieces) made by editing together videos of cats playing pianos downloaded from Youtube.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
7.0 (6 ratings) director: Justin Lin actor: Lucas Black / Nathalie Kelley
other title: Velocidade Furiosa - Ligação Tóquio / Fast & Furious : Tokyo drift
In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Shaun gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing
Club Zodiac (2020) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB
Club Zodiac
director: Joe Hunting
A portrait of the devoted electric dance community Club Zodiac. Void of judgement and the public eye, the club holds it's exotic galas inside virtual reality app VRChat using full body tracking technology.
Featherfall (2019) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB
Featherfall
director: Robin Klengel / Leonhard Müllner
This short film/video installation uses anecdotes that gamers share on internet forums to reflect on the feedback between the world of dreams and the video games.
No No Nooky TV (1987) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban
No No Nooky T.V.
director: 芭芭拉·汉默
other title: 哔哔性爱电视 / No No Nooky T.V.
NO NO NOOKY TV posits sexuality to be a social construct in a "sex-text" of satiric graphic representation of "dirty pictures." Made on an Amiga Computer and shot in 16mm film, NO NO NOOKY TV confronts the feminist controversy around sexuality with electronic language, pixels and interface. Even the monitor is eroticized in this film/video hybrid that points fun at romance, sexuality, and love in our post-industrial age. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.
Dream Journal 2016–2019 (2019) [Movie] TMDB
Dream Journal 2016–2019
director: Jon Rafman
This single-channel video explores the effects of technology and information overload on the contemporary psyche. Set in a virtual tech-noir urban space populated by strange hybrids of non-humans and augmented people, part of the expansive, fractured narrative focuses on the continued adventures of Xanax Girl and her search for her companion—a hybrid dog/seal with the head of a boy—who has been abducted. The film, which arose from the artist’s daily practice of animating his dreams using hobbyist 3D software, weaves together deep-web imagery with hardboiled detective story tropes and repressed libidinal fantasies to create a nightmarish vision of an internet addict’s unconscious. The film features an original score by Oneohtrix Point Never and James Ferraro.
Operation Jane Walk (2018) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
Operation Jane Walk
director: 罗宾·克伦格尔 / 莱昂哈德·穆尔纳 actor: Jacob Banigan
other title: 城市徒步行动 / 珍雅各:全境封鎖
A city tour through the architecture of an Online Shooter. Operation Jane Walk is based on the dystopian multiplayer shooter Tom Clancy’s: The Division (Ubisoft Entertainment 2016). In this work, the game’s digital war zone is appropriated with the help of an artistic operation. Within the rules of the game’s software, the militaristic environment is being re-used for a pacifistic city tour. The urban flâneurs avoid the combats whenever possible and become peaceful tourists of a digital world, which is a detailed replica of Midtown Manhattan. While walking through the post-apocalyptic city, issues such as architecture history, urbanism and the game developer’s interventions into the urban fabric are being discussed.
Hardly Working (2022) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
Hardly Working
director: 苏珊娜·福洛克 / 罗宾·克伦格尔 actor: Jacob Banigan
other title: 幾乎不工作 (台) / 徒劳
《幾乎不工作》將焦點放在那些通常停留在電玩幕後的角色:NPC,這些非玩家角色在數位世界中扮演臨時演員,好營造出一切正常運作的表象。該作品以民族誌研究的標準來檢視洗衣婦、馬童、清道婦與木匠等四個角色,他們就像是薛西弗斯(Sisyphus)的機器,其勞動流程、活動模式,甚至是錯誤與故障,均活靈活現地成了資本主義下勞動型態的模型。
How to Disappear (2020) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
How to Disappear
director: 罗宾·克伦格尔 / 莱昂哈德·穆尔纳 actor: Dmitry Gamolin / Kathy Tanner-Weidhofer
other title: 如何消失 / How to Disappear - Deserting Battlefield
Is it possible to desert in a shooter game? Along this question, "How to Disappear" reflects on war and game, discipline and disobedience. For the history of defiance is as old as the history of war - and yet the act of desertion goes beyond the game's space of action. Shot in the martial yet picturesque war landscapes of the online shooter "Battlefield V", the hyperrealistic graphics become the backdrop for an essay-like narrative. The narrator's voice creates a crack through which physical-real realities penetrate the depoliticized fun stage of the game. Using performances and interventions in the digital battlefield, "How to Disappear" explores the scopes and limits of the audiovisual entertainment machine.
Created date: Nov. 10, 2025