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6 films in package
The Most Honest Actor
After a traumatic event shatters a director's relationship with men, she uses a casting call to examine male gender roles and the men in her life.
Hidden Levels: Machinima
Back in the 90s, artists turned video games into movie sets, and their wildest ideas are finally hitting documentaries.
Hyodo's Paradise
Hyodo lives near Tokyo in a vibrant house filled with hundreds of sex dolls. An unconventional character living amidst the normalcy and conformity of Japan, his life blurs the lines between reality and fantasy. Hyodo's hedonistic, imaginative world is explored unflinchingly in an affectionate portrait of a deeply complex man.
Doomed and Famous
A prismatic portrait of a longtime denizen of the Downtown NY art world, critic, curator and collector Adrian Dannatt, once described by Air Mail as ‘one of those wonderful Zelig-like figures on New York’s arts and literary scene.
The Deeply Personal Anecdotes Of The Honey Rider
Famed Donkey Basketball Champion Teddy "Boy" LaLoose appears in the first interview after his now infamous accident, right before the final game of the Donkey Basketball League Western Conference.
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Back in the 90s, artists turned video games into movie sets, and their wildest ideas are finally hitting documentaries. Before “virtual production” existed, filmmakers cracked open PC games and used them like back-lot studios. This film traces that underground invention—machinima—from hacked Quake mods and live Halo shows to today’s festival docs shot inside Grand Theft Auto. Hidden Levels: Machinima explores authorship, community, the relationship between art & commerce, and whether or not there is really a benefit to being a pioneer. Fast, funny, and unexpectedly emotional, this film promises that you will be seeing a lot more films shot using video games.

  • Runtime
    30 minutes
  • Country
    United States
  • Director
    Andrew Callaway
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