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 be the most amazing event that UCLA has ever hosted.
Read our review in the LA WEEKLY and from the UCLA Graduate Student Association website (GSA).
“Melnitz Movies, Los Angeles Filmforum, and the student gaming organization Ludus proudly present a program of video game based experimental shorts. Expanding the boundaries of machinima (in which “machine cinema” is made from the appropriation of video game content), each of these works makes use of a virtual gaming world such as Grand Theft Auto, World of Warcraft, or Tomb Raider and re-contextualizes it, commenting on issues of gender or militarism, identity or representation. Alternately playful and contemplative, these pieces collectively illustrate the ever-growing diversity of possibilities created by this still young source of found footage.” -From the GSA site