The French Democracy

By Anonymous (not verified), 30 November, 2005
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The French Democracy is a political film about France's riots, made in machinima (a filmmaking technique that uses video-games as animation engines) with the new video game The Movies -- a game whose objective is to make machinima films.

The French Democracy is a political film about France's riots, made in machinima (a filmmaking technique that uses video-games as animation engines) with the new video game The Movies -- a game whose objective is to make machinima films.

The French Democracy is a little rough around the edges, unashamedly political and one-sided, and could use some work on the pacing, but it's also a stirring piece of political filmmaking, created using a $50 piece of software intended to enable its users to become one-person animation auteurs.

Most machnima is silly, or porny, or violent -- but this is real political stuff, the kind of thing the First Amendment was invented for. It's a real milestone in machinima history.