{"id":832,"date":"2025-09-10T13:02:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T04:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/?page_id=832"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:58:00","slug":"program-l","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/en\/program-l\/","title":{"rendered":"\u300aL\u300bCruising in the Realm of the Unreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"film-list\">\n<div class=\"capimg\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/2025\/images\/L4_still_Sightjacking.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Sightjacking\n  <\/div>\n<div>\n    <span>Japan \/ UK \/ Hong Kong \/ Italy + Switzerland<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Cruising in the Realm of the Unreal<\/h2>\n<h3>6 works, 86 min.<\/h3>\n<p>    Playing in the space between the real and the unreal. A new avant-garde? Video games + movies = the world of machinima.<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cMachinima\u201d is moving image art that sees the world of video games as a new frontier in cinema, creates artistic worlds with video game engines as virtual readymade resources, and takes inspiration from video game culture. Artists and curators involved in a major machinima program at the 2023 Oberhausen Short Film Festival in Germany have been invited to introduce trends in this comparatively new form of moving image expression.<\/p>\n<p>    <strong>Interchange<\/strong>\u3000SATO Ryotaro \/ digital \/ 9min \/ 2024\uff08Japan\uff09<br \/>\n    <strong>There is no spoon<\/strong>\u3000Natalie MAXIMOVA \/ digital \/ 16min \/ 2021\uff08UK\uff09<br \/>\n    <strong>Rabu Rabu<\/strong>\u3000TSUI Hou Lam \/ digital \/ 19min \/ 2023\uff08Hong Kong\uff09<br \/>\n    <strong>Sightjacking<\/strong>\u30002girls1comp \/ digital \/ 10min \/ 2025\uff08Italy + Switzerland\uff09<br \/>\n    <strong>New Old Homeland<\/strong>\u3000TANIGUCHI Akihiko \/ digital \/ 25min \/ 2025\uff08Japan\uff09<br \/>\n    <strong>Outlet<\/strong>\u3000SATO Ryotaro \/ digital \/ 12min \/ 2025\uff08Japan\uff09<\/p>\n<p>    \u25ba Curated by IP Yuk-Yiu (filmmaker, independent curator)<br \/>\n    \u25ba Mon, Sep 29 at 4:00pm \u2013 Guest talk by IP Yuk-Yiu following the screening\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>\u25ceSpecial Talk<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Cruising in the Real of the Unreal: Between Game and Cinema<\/strong><br \/>\nDate&#038;Time: Mon, Sep 29 at 6:45pm \/ Venue: Terayama Shuji (3rd floor, Image Forum) *Admission Free<br \/>\nHost: Dmitry FROLOV (curator)<br \/>\nGuest: IP Yuk-Yiu, TANIGUCHI Akihiko (media artist)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sightjacking Japan \/ UK \/ Hong Kong \/ Italy + Switzerland Cruising in the Realm of the Unreal 6 works, 86 min. Playing in the space between the real and the unreal. A new avant-garde? Video games + movies = the world of machinima. \u201cMachinima\u201d is moving image art that sees the world of video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"program.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/?page_id=830","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-832","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/832\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageforumfestival.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}