As my own personal tenure at UCLA’s Cinema and Media Studies program comes to an end, my legacy organization LUDUS, is putting on a phenomenal event next Tuesday April 20th. Avant-Game, curated by Harrison Gish and Andrew Hall, will ...Read More
THURSDAY, june 4 at 7:30 in James Bridges Theater PLAY TIME (1967) 124 min directed by jacques tati writers: tati, Jacques Lagrange cast: tati, Barbara Dennek co-sponsored with Melnitz Movies 70mm print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive 2002 restored version LUDUS and Melnitz Movies are proud to ...Read More
Welcome to Ludus! Tonight’s film, Makato Kamiya’s Resident Evil: Degeneration, exists as what we might term hybridized media. Resident Evil has been a successful survival horror video game franchise since 1996, comprised of eight video games produced for ...Read More
may 20 RESIDENT EVIL: DEGENERATION dir. Makato Kamiya [2008, 97 min] Melnitz Hall room 2534, The Design Room Wednesday 5pm Makato Kamiya’s 2008 Resident Evil: Degeneration exists as an odd hybrid of video game and film. Entirely computer generated, it visually resembles a cut scene of ...Read More
may 6THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONSdirs. Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth[2003, 90 min]Melnitz Hall room 2534, The Design RoomWednesday 5pm In this documentary, the most game-like of movie directors, Lars von Trier, challenges his former professor, veteran filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s ...Read More
april 29 Melnitz Hall room 2534, The Design Room Wednesday 5pm eXistenZ with: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Willem Dafoe Dir. David Cronenberg [1999, 97min] "Superstar computer game designer Allegra Geller has just invented 'eXistenZ' - a new game designed to sweep away all barriers ...Read More
Our speaker and film series begins!!!!! All events are (somehow) linked to video games, or are intrinsically game-like in nature. All LUDUS sponsored speaker and film events are at on WEDNESDAYS at 5pm, Melnitz Hall room 2534, The Design Room: april ...Read More