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S3 E83 Half Life: HEV Suit (June 2023)

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This week, Phil has selected a short that will make all those H&S and Half Lifers smile equally… HEV Suit by @Zapper770 … because we all need more head crabs in our lives. The film is an example of great comedy timing.

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Film, by Zapper770, released 26 April 2021

Paul Marino, director of the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences and author of one of the first books written on how to make machinima, called The Art of Machinima (2009) (actually its pretty outdated in terms of advice, but good for ‘ole’ time’s sake’!

S3 E82 Machinima by Ally Kustera (June 2023)

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This week’s film review looks at a work by Ally Kustera. The work artfully conveys a sense of feminism without the politics through snippets of video game character cutscenes from Lara Croft to Ellie (The Last of Us) and others in between.

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Daniel Grove’s Kitbash for Blender of Back Rooms assets here.

Ally Kustera’s Machinima, released 7 Feb 2023 –

S3 E81 Still Here (June 2023)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes June 15, 2023 Leave a reply

Still Here… a chilling dystopian tale of a world devasted by climate crisis and wealth inequality. This week’s review is of a film by Guido Ekker, featured on the Film Shortage Channel (YouTube), and is one of the few shorts we’ve seen that attempts to make a point beyond pure entertainment. We identify some of the stereotypical tropes used and discuss the creative potential of machinima and virtual production for this kind of political messaging – all with our usual critical bonhomie.

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Film, released 17 April on the Film Shortage Channel, YouTube –

and also available on The Panics website here

The Orville, TV show

Completely Machinima Interview: Vladimir Nadein & Dmitry Frolov, curators (June 2023)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes June 7, 2023 Leave a reply

In this bonus episode, Tracy talks to the curators of the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Vladimir Nadein and Dmitry Frolov.

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Tracy’s blog post about the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, including links to newspaper reviews about the festival’s machinima programme, Against Gravity

CM team discuss Oberhausen –

Sam Crane’s article: ‘Making movies in video games: why the film world is finally ready to take ‘machinima’ seriously’ in The Conversation, 16 May

Chris Marker’s machinima on Second Life –

Visions du Reel Swiss Film Festival 2023 special jury prize winner, Knit’s Island by Square Eyes –

Against Gravity showcase at Norway Film Festival link

Milan Machinima Film Festival link

Phil’s project to restore Machiniplex films starts with the release of his own Male Restroom Etiquette (originally released in 2006), with a hosted premiere of the HD remastered version on 11 June. The film was listed in the Guinness Book of Record’s Gamer’s Edition in 2009 as the most viewed machinima on YouTube at the time. Link here –

S3 E80 Oberhausen ISFF Discussion (June 2023)

Tracy Harwood Podcast Episodes June 7, 2023 Leave a reply

Following on from Tracy’s visit to the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, which took place between 26 April and 1 May, Ricky leads a discussion with Tracy on the thoughts about film selection at the event, different distribution strategies, topics discussed at the panel, and the future of avant-garde machinima films and filmmaking for festivals generally.

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Tracy’s CM blog post on her visit to the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival

Moviestorm 3D/stereoscopic render feature guidelines

iClone 3D/stereoscopic render feature guidelines

Hypatia Pickens aka Sarah Higley CM episode, poetry in machinima!

Tracy’s paper on a manifesto for machinima, published in Journal of Visual Culture (2011) – a preprint free download on ResearchGate can be found here

You can also follow this episode with Tracy’s interview with Vladimir Nadein and Dmitry Frolov, curators of the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, on our channel here –

You can also follow this episode with Tracy’s interview with Vladimir Nadein and Dmitry Frolov, curators of the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, on our channel here