RE-IMAGINED: VIDEO GAMES AS CULTURE.

About me

Greetings!
My name is Misha Antonich and this page is dedicated to informing people about an upcoming special program I'm curating called RE-IMAGINED: VIDEO GAMES AS CULTURE.

My work

BUDI 2007 Special Program. RE-IMAGINED: VIDEO GAMES AS CULTURE.
The program length will be that of an average movie, so around 90-120 min., and will be shown to the audience of the BUDI 2007 Film Festival (BUDI = Busan Universiade for Digital Contents) on the premises of Kyungsung University in Busan, South Korea.

The idea is as simple as it is uncommon. RE-IMAGINED: VIDEO GAMES AS CULTURE is based on on the premise that we, as a global cultural community, are well into are 3rd decade of interacting with, manipulating and being influenced by video and computer games (VG/CG's).
VG/CG are clearly a strong mainstream cultural form that many people come in contact with and that heavily preoccupy specific groups of developed economies (for better or worst depending on who you talk to - and often enough that person's age).

The premise for this filmic program is to try to track down some of the video, film and digital motion creations that deal overtly and directly deal with the cultural juggernaut of video/computer game play. Ranging from the critical to the playful, the philosophical to the non-nonsensical, the common theme is an attempt to formulate a position (or in this case, a group of positions) to this current reality. Ad hoc value judgments are out of place as this is meant as a visual discovery forum that tries to tease out artistic brilliant applied to a topic some find childish, or to provoke thought through darker forecasts about our collective future with immersive interactions through games.