[arg_discuss] ARG movies?

[Marcus Helm]

May not be relevant and certainly completely out of date (I don't check
this mail so often these days) but the the Neurocam film might be of
interest:
http://vimeo.com/31470717


On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Rob Jagnow <rob at lazy8studios.com> wrote:


> I suppose you could consider War Games

> (1983)<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/>.

>  But rather than a game that looks like reality, this one's reality that

> looks like a game.

>

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> 2012/3/27 Geneviève Cardin <baroblik at videotron.ca>

>

> > The only thing that seems to look like what you're looking for, as I

> > recall, is a one hour episode of the TV show Nub3rs that I saw on CBS in

> > 2007.

> > Only missing few minutes to be consider as a movie ;)

> >

> > http://areacodeinc.com/**projects/chain-factor-numb3rs-**arg/<

> http://areacodeinc.com/projects/chain-factor-numb3rs-arg/>

> >

> >

> > The Cube was not really based on ARG, but if you have spare time, you

> > might want to take a look at it.

> >

> >

> >  Geneviève Cardin

> >> Baroblik

> >> ARG / Transmedia experiences

> >> Web,  Movies & TV, Serious games

> >>

> >>

> >

> >

> >

> > Le 12-03-27 à 04:27, Jaakko Stenros a écrit :

> >

> >

> >  Quoting Markus Montola <markus.montola at uta.fi>:

> >>

> >> This one is just around the corner: http://www.theinstitutemovie.

> **com/<http://www.theinstitutemovie.com/>

> >>

> >> Could you specify a little bit more what it is that you are looking for?

> >>

> >> Jaakko

> >>

> >>  I'm not sure if *any* ARG movies exist.

> >>>

> >>>

> >>> But if you are looking for pervasive games movies -- as in "games that

> >>> blur the boundary between play and ordinary life" -- then you might

> want to

> >>> look at these for instance:

> >>>

> >>> http://pervasivegames.**wordpress.com/2009/02/10/20/<

> http://pervasivegames.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/20/>

> >>> http://pervasivegames.**wordpress.com/2009/03/16/**

> >>> pervasive-games-in-films-part-**ii-the-last-of-sheila/<

> http://pervasivegames.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/pervasive-games-in-films-part-ii-the-last-of-sheila/

> >

> >>> http://pervasivegames.**wordpress.com/2009/05/14/**

> >>> pervasive-games-in-films-part-**iii-midnight-madness/<

> http://pervasivegames.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/pervasive-games-in-films-part-iii-midnight-madness/

> >

> >>> http://pervasivegames.**wordpress.com/2009/08/10/**

> >>> pervasive-games-in-films-part-**iv-bruno/<

> http://pervasivegames.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/pervasive-games-in-films-part-iv-bruno/

> >

> >>>

> >>> Also the documentary killer.berlin.doc.

> >>>

> >>> You can look up more that kind of stuff from our book Pervasive Games

> --

> >>> we even dug out some ancient episode of The Saint which featured the

> Death

> >>> Game, and probably contributed a lot to the spread of the assassination

> >>> games:

> >>> http://www.imdb.com/title/**tt0693517/fullcredits<

> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0693517/fullcredits>

> >>>

> >>>

> >>> Pardon the self-promotion, :-)

> >>>

> >>> - Markus Montola

> >>>

> >>> On 3/27/12 4:40 AM, John Willoughby wrote:

> >>>

> >>>> No offense intended but I think that's an impossibly vague

> description.

> >>>> ARG

> >>>> is such a fuzzy category...

> >>>>

> >>>> If you mean arg as in alternate reality, then there are many examples

> to

> >>>> choose from. From "20,000 leagues" to "The genetic opera" and

> >>>> everything in

> >>>> between.

> >>>>

> >>>> If you mean arg as in what most of the people who frequent

> >>>> unfiction.com

> >>>> would think of...that's different.

> >>>>

> >>>> And even then do you mean something that is totally TINAG and simply

> >>>> presents an "I wake up and the world is different"? or something that

> >>>> features a "game" and pulls back a curtain (at least at some point) -

> >>>> like

> >>>> "The Game"?

> >>>>

> >>>> An ARG definition fits so well the old joke about "ask 10 people, get

> 12

> >>>> answers".

> >>>>

> >>>> And then, how narrow are you defining a "film"? Can it be a reasonable

> >>>> length of assorted vid like Marble Hornets or iamamiwhoami? Or does it

> >>>> have

> >>>> to be a contiguous 1-2 hour production?

> >>>>

> >>>>

> >>>> -----Original Message-----

> >>>> From: arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org [mailto:arg_discuss-bounces@**

> >>>> igda.org <arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org>] On

> >>>> Behalf Of JEFF HULL

> >>>> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 7:00 PM

> >>>> To: Discussion list of the IGDA ARG SIG

> >>>> Subject: [arg_discuss] ARG movies?

> >>>>

> >>>> Hello List,

> >>>>

> >>>> I am wondering if anyone here knows about feature length documentaries

> >>>> or

> >>>> fictional films made about ARG experiences.  We know about "The Game"

> >>>> and

> >>>> "eXistenZ" which gesture toward pervasive gaming.  I am speaking more

> >>>> specifically about contemporary movies which focus on ARG /

> Trans-Media

> >>>> players, projects, etc.  Recommendations are appreciated!

> >>>>

> >>>> Thanks very much,

> >>>> Jeff Hull

> >>>>

> >>>>

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