| Avant-Garde: A New Art Form This was my final project while studying at the New York Film Academy. It's a short essay I wrote about the concept of the video game as a new medium for art. Whether in terms of music, art design, narrative, or even the mechanics themselves, video games have an as-yet unsurpassed potential for producing works of amazing beauty and depth. This is not to say that games can't or don't function as a commercial venue as well - they do, and quite well at that. The commercialization of literature, film, and music is mirrored in video games, with one less facet - video games are still in their infancy, still somewhat in an experimental state. I have tried to give people my take on what has been done and could be done to produce great works of art that are themselves entertaining. Footage I used for this movie came from: Games Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (UbiSoft) Grim Fandango (Lucasarts) Katamari Damacy (Namco) Street Fighter II (Capcom) Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game (Capcom) Devil May Cry 3 (Capcom) Devil May Cry 4 trailer (Capcom) Guilty Gear X-2 (Arc System Works) The Sims (Maxis) Armored Core 3 (FROM Software) Star Wars: Battlefront II (Pandemic Studios) Shadow of the Colossus (SCEA) Lilo and Stitch (Disney Interactive) Taz: Wanted (Blitz Games) Final Fantasy X (Square Enix) Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner (KCEJ) Samurai Warriors 2: Empires (Omega Force) Tetrollapse (GameGuild) Jagged Alliance 2 (SirTech) Enter the Matrix (Shiny Entertainment) Eragon (Stormfront Studios) GunMaster Onslaught (LostVectors) PONG (Atari) The "footage" I put together of Pong was done with simple shapes that were manually moved around the screen, and though I did credit PONG to Atari because I did utilize Pong as a reference to the first video games, I didn't use actual PONG footage. Movies/Series Charlotte Sometimes (Visionbox) Eragon (20th Century Fox) Crash (Lion's Gate) Noir (Bee Train) I'm Your Man DVD Cover (Choicepoint) Space Mutiny (Action International) Terminator 2 (TriStar) Star Wars (Lucasfilm) Street Fighter: The Movie (Universal) The Matrix Reloaded (Warner Bros.) Enter the Dragon (Warner Bros.) Music "Cyberbird" by Gabriela Robin "Vergil Battle 3" by Tetsuya Shibata "Battle with the Colossus" By Kow Otani Other "Eragon" by Christopher Paolini "Serra Angel vs. Hypnotic Specter" by Greg Staples "The Treachery of Images" by Rene Magritte "The Lost Jewels of Nabooti" by R.A. Montgomery Self Portrait by Scott McCloud "Fountain" by Marcel Duchamp Tags: video game movie art |