How to Disappear

Short Film Experimental

Country: Austria
Year: 2020
Language: English
Subtitles: Spanish
Runtime: 21 mins.

Is it possible to desert in a shooter game? Along this question, "How to Disappear" reflects on war and game, discipline and disobedience. For the history of defiance is as old as the history of war - and yet the act of desertion goes beyond the game's space of action. Shot in the martial yet picturesque war landscapes of the online shooter "Battlefield V", the hyperreal graphics become the backdrop for an essay-like narrative. The narrator's voice creates a crack through which physical-real realities penetrate the depoliticized fun stage of the game.

DIRECTOR
Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf

Total Refusal is an open artists’ collective which criticizes and artistically appropriates contemporary video games. Acknowledging that this media is currently not realizing its cultural potential, we aim to appropriate digital game spaces and put them to new use. Moving within games but casting aside the intended gameplay, we rededicate these resources to new activities and narratives, looking to create “public” spaces with a critical potential.

Director: Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf
Cast Franz-Josef Windisch-Graetz, Dmitry Gamolin
Cinematography: Michael Stumpf
Production: Total Refusal
Screenplay: Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel, Michael Stumpf.
Editing: Leonhard Müllner
Music: Adina Camhy
contacto: info@refreshingfilms.com



 Screenings

GIFF OnLine
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Irapuato
22.9.2020
11:00 (Horario CST)
Cinemex Sala 10 Plaza Jacarandas