Oberhausen ISFF

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

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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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Show Notes and Links

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)

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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.



YouTube Version of this Episode

Show Notes and Links

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