game aesthetics
Why P.T. Anderson Gets Away With "Retro" But Games Don't
Why do filmmakers using vintage VistaVision get praised for aesthetic choice while pixel-art games get labeled "retro"? The difference reveals everything.
cinematography
virtual photography
Carson Lynn: Sculpting with virtual light
Artist Carson Lynn interrogates the boundaries of photography by capturing and manipulating virtual light within game spaces, creating works that question conventional definitions of image-making while exploring queerness in digital landscapes.
Virtual Reality
Andrew Thomas Huang: Assembling universes with magic and motion
Andrew Thomas Huang blends CGI, puppetry, and virtual reality to create immersive worlds, from Björk's VR experiences to FKA twigs' music videos.
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Nioh, or the difficulty of making a videogame that honors Akira Kurosawa
Can Nioh succeed where Seven Samurai 20XX failed?
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With eXistenZ, Cronenberg created the only videogame movie we’ll ever need
Game on, and in, eXistenZ.
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The Golden Age of Shitty Videogame Adaptations
1994 doomed videogame movies.
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Exploring the cramped, beautiful cinematography of survival horror
The hidden pleasures of “bad movies.”
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The Tracking Shot and Action Games
Daredevil, True Detective, and the videogame-tension of the long-shot.
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The visor as cinematographer in Metroid Prime
That eccentric little control, actualized.
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Sci-fi film corridors re-purposed as a videogame maze
The history of sci-fi, stitched together in glorious 3D.
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Oldboy’s legendary hallway scene, de-made as an NES game
The hallway fight scene in Oldboy is the stuff of legend. Park Chan-wook’s 2003 revenge opus featured a lot of memorable moments, but for me at least the real sticking point isn’t the holy-shit-no twist ending but the three-minute fight scene in the middle of the movie, in which Homerically beleague
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Ninety-four cameras paint an aging actor in 3D virtual reality
London multimedia design studio Marshamallow Laser Feast does it again.