Gaming the System
In programme
Gaming the System
“Gaming the system” is a term that describes a certain behaviour when the rules of a system are used to cheat, abuse or break it in order to achieve a desired result. There is a particular art form or genre in experimental cinema that fits this definition very well. It is the practice of making films in video games which is called machinima (machine + cinema + animation). It was born in an amateur community of avid players in the late 1990s and later evolved into a professional art form, but has always been a way of utilising and manipulating existing games. Whether to tell a story and have fun, or to crack the codes of digital worlds and reveal their nature, machinima-makers subvert the rules of the system. This programme of short moving image works aims to present various forms of playful artistic practice.
Films
A Woman on the Internet (or, The Eternal Scream) / A Woman on the Internet (or, The Eternal Scream)
Jamie Janković 23' United Kingdom
How to Disappear / How to Disappear
Total Refusal 21' Austria
Why Don't the Cops Fight Each Other / Why Don't the Cops Fight Each Other
Grayson Earle 9' USA
The Grannies / The Grannies
Marie Foulston 17' United Kingdom Australia