Film & Games - Programme

Avalon - Spiel um Dein Leben
Director: Mamoru Oshii, J/PL 2001, 106 min, DVD, colour, GV
Actors: Malgorzata Foremniak, Jerzy Gudejko, Dariusz Biskupski

In the future, virtual reality gaming has become a huge pastime, with the biggest of these being the wargame simulation Avalon. One of the top players is Ash who becomes fascinated with finding an advanced but hidden level no one has ever returned from.





Ben X
Director: Nic Balthazar, B/NL 2007, 93 min, 35 mm, colour, GS
Actors: Greg Timmermans, Laura Verlinden, Marijke Pinoy


Autistic Ben lives in a universe to itself, where he plays his favourite online computer game "Archlord". While he is a warrior in the virtual world of his game, his real life is conditioned by being bullied and excluded. Everything changes when Scarlite, the girl he has only met in his online game, wants to meet him.





Like a Dragon (Ryû Ga Gotoku: Gekijô-ban)
Director: Takashi Miike, J 2007, 110 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
Actors: Kazuki Kitamura, Goro Kishitani, Yutaka Matsushige


Miike's adaption of the video game Yakuza into a film is certainly quite different to any Hollywood film. Miike has almost no plot, figures disappear as quickly as they come in this postmodern context. The story about the ex-Yakuza Kirya fascinates us with its brilliant and weird action scenes which are only too well known to connoisseurs of the game.





Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (Sungnyangp ali sonyeoui jaerim)
Director: Jang Sun-Woo, ROK 2002, 123 min, 35 mm, colour, ES
Actors: Kim Hyun-Sung, Lim Eun-Kyeong, Kim Jin-Pyo


Su buys lighter from a little girl. The phone number on the lighter opens up a new world on him: He is invited to take part in a game called "The resurrection of the little match girl", a virtual universe of martial arts and weapons. Reality is left behind. Something goes wrong and the little girl runs amok.





S1m0ne
Director: Andrew Niccol, USA 2002, 113 min, 35 mm, colour, OV
Actors: Al Pacino, Catherine Keener, Jay Mohr


Viktor Taransky's career as a film-maker is about to collapse and his leading lady has also left the project. His ex-wife, who runs the film-studio, even fires him. But then he meets the sick Hal who has created a computer-simulated actress S1m0ne. Taransky turns this virtual person into a superstar but is charged with murder when he kills her off.





Tron
Director: Steven Lisberger, USA 1982, 96 min, DVD, colour, GS
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan


A computer whiz is sucked inside a powerful computer, where he must fight for his life in a giant video-game competition. "Tron" is the first motion picture with notable computer-generated imagery (CGI).

The sequel "Tr2n" will be released in 2011.





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