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LOOP FAIR 2019 BARCELONA

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November 18-21, 2019

 

Can traditional movie screening integrate gamification elements? The visitors of the Loop Fair (Loop Barcelona) were called to discover the answer to the aforementioned question, by experiencing the movie “No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse”, 2019 by Menelaos Karamaghiolis, represented by Rodeo Gallery. Via the dedicated application that was especially designed and developed, the users were offered a unique way to choose how the movie ends, depending on their moral standing. The movie was initially chosen by.. In among the top five movies of the Loop Fair, finally winning first place.

 

DISCLAIMER: This video preview is not the full work, is one of three versions of the video that will be played through an application that is controlled by a games console.

 

The moral crossroads that Menelaos Karamaghiolis’ new moving image works expand the video space and introduce a new kind of realism the filmmaker has been constructing throughout the past decade by mapping what is not central in the geography of the heroic. The video is a simulation of a country in crisis, through the lives of a stray dog that wanders downtown amidst all the riots and protests, and another dog that lives safely in the suburbs. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse is a video in three variations that, with the use of a gaming device, the viewer can choose through which perspective he wants the story to unfold. A filmmaker claims fear staying alone in a pet cemetery and follows the gravedigger, who goes to pick up a corpse of a dog. Is this the case or is it that the invasive presence of the camera lens perpetually employs childish excuses so that it pierces uninterruptedly through every private moment? The need for recording everything through a camera, the fear of death and the human burial customs are being harshly judged by a dog that questions its own death and creates a confusion in quest of its immortality. Finally, the viewer has to choose which was buried: 1. the dog itself; 2. the small white dog from the fridge; or 3. a pillow.

 

 

Artist

Menelaos Karamaghiolis

Title

No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse

Year

2019

Rodeo, Piraeus

 

More Info: http://loop-barcelona.com/artist-video/no-one-will-kill-you-any-more-than-if-you-were-a-corpse/