machinima
Bonheur Suprême shot Homunculus, a documentary short, entirely inside Skyrim
Seventeen minutes of machinima about cruising as an "Arab" on gay dating apps—premiered at Visions du Réel, built from the mod community's tools.
documentary
Rising
The Teenage Fantasies of Nikima Jagudajev
The Austrian-Uzbek artist and choreographer has always made worlds with their own rules—from a childhood fantasy game to Like, a video game built from years of live performance.
climate change
What is the Environmental Weight of a Rendered Frame?
Kara Stone and Joshua Dawson are making work about a world in crisis. They're also reckoning with what it means to build inside the systems driving it.
war
What Happens When You Can Do Nothing in a War Zone?
Alan Kwan's new game, Scent, offers you a role not as a soldier, but as a lone dog wandering a desolate war zone. You are simply a witness without power.
documentary
"La vraie vie" Asks What It Means To Be Real In A Fake Place
French filmmakers follow actor Victor Assié through a role-play server in Arma 3, creating a documentary that blurs the line between virtual and real life.
generational memory
Ina Chen Charts Her Family's Journey From Mao to Migration
Artist Ina Chen uses deepfakes, family archives, and interactive technology to bridge generational gaps in a moving performance about Chinese history
interactive storytelling
Vincent Morisset: The poetic spontaneity of interactive storytelling
Director Vincent Morisset bridges technology and storytelling through innovative interactive experiences, from pioneering the first interactive music video with Arcade Fire to creating Motto, a participatory narrative that blends user contributions with poetic serendipity.
immersive journalism
Zahra Rasool: Immersive stories through justice and journalism
hrough AJ Contrast, Zahra Rasool leads Emmy-nominated immersive journalism that centers marginalized voices. Her groundbreaking work "Still Here" examines incarceration and gentrification through collaborative storytelling with formerly incarcerated women.
virtual reality
Vassiliki and Navid Khonsari: Making mediums the message
iNK Stories founders Vassiliki and Navid Khonsari blend documentary storytelling with interactive design to create immersive experiences that illuminate real-world narratives.
News
New documentary focuses on the struggle of making independent games
Devolver Digital has published a new documentary on Steam called Surviving Indie. The idea of the documentary is to bring more attention to the struggle of being an independent game maker. In some ways, it feels like it might be a response to Indie Game: The Movie, which has been criticized by some
News
From Darkness, an interactive documentary about African refugees
The keyword for the Austrian art group goldextra is “experience.” The group presented its online multiplayer game Frontiers with a sentence that fed this idea: “Don’t just watch, experience the news yourself.” Frontiers had virtual recreations of spaces in the Sahara, southern Spain, and Rotterdam s
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A short documentary about the future of women in videogames
When Laila Shabir moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to start school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her Pakistani father told her to live her life as if she were a young man—to live her life without fear, something young women around the globe aren’t always taught. Shabir is the founde