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# Tënk Is Streaming Chris Marker's Video Game Film Level Five
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/tenk-is-streaming-chris-markers-video-game-film-level-five/
- Published: 2026-11-12T19:06:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-12T19:06:06.000Z
- Description: The 1997 experimental follows Laura as she completes a war simulation about Okinawa that refuses to let anyone change history.
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: Chris Marker, Level Five, film, Documentary, Japan, World War II, history, memory, #radar-item

Tënk, the French documentary streaming co-op, has added [*Level Five*](https://www.on-tenk.com/fr/documentaires/chris-marker/level-five?ref=killscreen.com), [Chris Marker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%5FMarker?ref=killscreen.com)'s 1997 feature, startingNovember 6\. According to its listing, the film stays on the service through March 5, 2027, and [the announcement](https://www.instagram.com/p/DfmUwxvie6J/?ref=killscreen.com) reduces the premise of this strange, challenging film to one line: Laura is finishing a video game about the Battle of Okinawa.

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The 2014 U.S. release trailer for **Level Five*, shown as a silent loop. [Watch the full trailer with sound](https://vimeo.com/90818826?ref=killscreen.com) from Icarus Films.

That's really only the start, though. Laura, played by Catherine Belkhodja, tries to finish an unfinished game from a lover who has died and toils alone at a computer terminal. The film is part devlog and YouTube confessional as she goes back and forth between her work and her confessions.

The game's framing is light on details, but the premise reflects Marker's approach. Most strategy games let the players rewind the course of a battle; this one only reproduces what happened. Through a network that runs alongside the internet, Laura reaches real-world informants and witnesses, among them the director Nagisa Oshima, and assembles the story of the infamous 1945 battle, when thousands of Okinawan civilians died in mass suicides as the island fell. Whether they voluntarily sought this fate or were coerced by propaganda is the film's central question as the material bleeds into the character's own life.

The streaming run lines up with Entrevues Belfort, the film festival in eastern France that runs November 16 to 22\. Its 2026 cross-program, "Joueurs·ses," looks at play in cinema, from board games and sports to role-play and video games. [Tënk's Belfort selection](https://www.on-tenk.com/fr/festivals/les-films-dentrevues-belfort?ref=killscreen.com) twins *Level Five* with *Neighborhood*, a 17-minute film about role-play and virtual communities by Alain Della Negra and Kaori Kinoshita.

Killscreen marked Marker's death in 2012 with [an essay](https://www.killscreen.com/chris-marker-memoirist-future-and-open-world-pioneer/) that read his films and his CD-ROM *Immemory* as early echoes of the open-world game. For more reading see [Chris Marker: Open-World Pioneer](https://www.killscreen.com/chris-marker-memoirist-future-and-open-world-pioneer/); [Chris Marker and *Level Five*](https://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-38-classics-re-runs/chris-marker-and-level-five/?ref=killscreen.com) at Screening the Past; and [a review of *Level Five*](https://www.filmcomment.com/article/review-level-five-chris-marker/?ref=killscreen.com) at Film Comment.

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Laura (Catherine Belkhodja) and her terminal in **Level Five*. Images: Icarus Films

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