About
What to expect
This evening is about machinima: films made inside video games, using images built, simulated and rendered by a computer.
- Parallel I – Harun Farocki, 2012, 16’
- Parallel II and III – Harun Farocki, 2014, 16’
- How to Disappear – Total Refusal, 2020, 21’
- Hardly Working – Total Refusal, 2022, 20’
- All films have English subtitles
- First in a series on digital born images
- Organized with Institute of Network Cultures
- Next up: desktop cinema
Questions
When does 🎬 Windows, Beautifully Rendered – Machinima start and end?
🎬 Windows, Beautifully Rendered – Machinima runs Sunday, 8 November 2026, 20:30.
Where is 🎬 Windows, Beautifully Rendered – Machinima?
🎬 Windows, Beautifully Rendered – Machinima takes place at Filmhuis Cavia, Van Hallstraat 52-I, Amsterdam.
What films are in the program?
Parallel I – Harun Farocki, 2012, 16’
Parallel II and III – Harun Farocki, 2014, 16’
How to Disappear – Total Refusal, 2020, 21’
Hardly Working – Total Refusal, 2022, 20’
All films have English subtitles.
What is machinima?
Machinima means films made inside video games.
The program uses game worlds to look at the world and at what it takes to make one look real.
What are the films about?
Parallel I-III examines how game worlds are constructed.
How to Disappear is an anti-war film shot in Battlefield V.
Hardly Working focuses on NPCs and their daily work.
How can I register?
Use the registration link:
Is this part of a series?
Yes. It is the first evening in a series of screenings on digital born images, organized with the Institute of Network Cultures: networkcultures.org
Next up: desktop cinema.
Amsterdam
Getting there
Filmhuis Cavia, Van Hallstraat 52-I, 1051 HH Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL
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