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# Cowboy Postcapitalism Stages a Live Zombie-Apocalypse Run
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/cowboy-postcapitalism-stages-a-live-zombie-apocalypse-run/
- Published: 2026-10-22T17:00:48.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-22T17:00:48.000Z
- Description: Total Refusal, the Vienna collective that turns mainstream games into political theater, performs at Games Transformed in London.
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, Events, #events, #radar-item, Total Refusal, Games Transformed, Performance, machinima, London, united kingdom

Event details

When

Sat., Oct. 31, 2026, 3 p.m.

Where

Games Transformed festival, Bethnal Green, London

Cost

Festival day passes from £20, weekend passes from £45, plus booking fee

[Get festival tickets](https://www.tickettailor.com/events/gamestransformed/2328476?ref=killscreen.com)

*Cowboy Postcapitalism* is a live in-game performance by Total Refusal, billed as a panic run through the zombie apocalypse, at the Games Transformed festival in Bethnal Green on Saturday afternoon. The collective and the festival announced it together in [a joint Instagram reel](https://www.instagram.com/p/DewKMWnuGIU/?ref=killscreen.com).

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From the trailer for Total Refusal's **How to Disappear* (2020), shot inside **Battlefield V*, not footage of the London performance. The clip plays silent here; [the full trailer](https://vimeo.com/332820047?ref=killscreen.com) has sound.

Total Refusal is a Vienna-based group that calls itself a pseudo-Marxist media guerrilla. It works inside big commercial games, not alongside them, to expose the politics under their glossy surfaces. In its live performances the members play a game on a big screen and talk over it, so a firefight or an open range becomes the set for a lecture. Neither the collective nor the festival has named the game this time.

The London date lands two days after Total Refusal's Berlin run of [*Let's Play I Am Old and Tired*](https://www.killscreen.com/total-refusal-bring-lets-play-i-am-old-and-tired-to-berlin/) with Theater im Bahnhof, a theater evening set in *Red Dead Redemption 2*. The collective's films include *How to Disappear* (2020), an anti-war film made inside *Battlefield V*, and *Kinderfilm* (2023), shot in *Grand Theft Auto V*.

Games Transformed runs Oct. 30 to Nov. 1 across three Bethnal Green venues under the theme Here to Stay, Here to Play. Its program includes [Mansoor Adayfi on Guantánamo and the IWGB Game Workers union](https://www.killscreen.com/games-transformeds-bill-spans-guantanamo-and-union-drives/).

Total Refusal is the kind of group the games press rarely covers. Killscreen's free Radar newsletter follows them and the rest of the work at the edges, three times a week.

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