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This radical short film screening showcases three short films made using footage from popular videogames, each of which consider how these ubiquitous cultural artefacts reflect or reinforce our sociopolitical reality. In Grayson Earle’s desktop performance Why Don’t the Cops Fight Each Other? (2021), the artist repeatedly mods Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto V (2013), investigating how and why police officers are coded differently to other non-player characters. Mathias Wolff’s It’s Just Math (2021) considers these insidious algorithmic logics in the real world. He uses the fictional city of Los Santos as a backdrop for his interrogation of the impact of predictive policing and dirty data on the everyday lives of Black, Indigenous and People of Colour in real-world Los Angeles. Rounding out the shorts program is pseudo-marxist media guerilla Total Refusal’s short film How to Disappear (2021), which reflects on the political and mechanical ramifications of combat desertion, both within the multiplayer videogame Battlefield (2002), and in the real world.
When
Tuesday, 3rd October
6.30pm - 8pm
Where
ACMI Cinemas
Federation Square
Tickets
Unclassified 15 +
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Contact
@ACMI