Sign up for our newsletters Subscribe
Stern's work, per the Film Studies Center summary, "explores uneasy and otherwise unconscious connections between physical existence and electronic simulation, surrounding the subject matters of violence, fantasy and historical memory." He regularly combines video game software, live performance, and other forms of spectacle. The results certainly sound unique. Stern describes one of the projects being presented tomorrow, Vietnam Romance: Entertainment System, as a "dinner theatre/adventure video game." Landlord Vigilante, an earlier project I learned about through Stern's website, looks a bit like Grand Theft Auto and tells the story of "a Los Angeles cab driver-turned-landlady who has nothing in life except for her fierce belief in individual freedoms and the marketplace."
Comments