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Stolen Life

Posted by fiezi

I recently had the chance to have a look at the final version of Nanoflix’s “Stolen Life”, a professionally produced feature length machinima movie.
For those of you who don’t know about the film and its makers, you can visit the Peter Rasmussen’s blog here and also the official movie website here. The movie was co-produced [...]

The 2007 ACMI Machinima Festival

Posted by fiezi

A couple of weeks ago, i had the pleasure to be invited to Australia to give a presentation at the 2007 Machinima Festival at the Australian Center for the Moving Image. The two day event showed and discussed machinima with contributions from Paul Marino, Eddo Stern and Jessica Hutchins, Peter Rasmussen and Jacqueline Turnure, Gus [...]

Time for a French School of Machinima?

Posted by Michael

What is it with the French? First Alex Chan’s The French Democracy and now KBS Production’s Bill et John. Does it actually pay off to have a national cinema and defend it as a cultural treasure – even in Machinima?
So far, Machinima had the flair of the global player. Hearing Hugh Hancock at the Festival [...]