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Kanbar Special Screening of RETURNING FIRE: INTERVENTIONS IN VIDEO GAME CULTURE

Friday, October 21, 2011 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (ET)

New York, NY

Kanbar Special Screening of RETURNING FIRE: INTERVENTIONS...

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THIS EVENT BEGINS AT 6 PM

AND WILL BE HELD AT

721 BROADWAY, ROOM 006



Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film, TV & New Media

in collaboration with

Tisch Department of Photography & Imaging

and

NYU Game Center

presents a

Kanbar Special Screening

of

In three separate vignettes, we see how Anne-Marie Schleiner, Wafaa Bilal, and Joseph Delappe moved dissent from the streets to our screens, infiltrating war games in an attempt to break the hypnotic spell of "militainment." Their work forces all of us -- gamers and non-gamers alike -- to think critically about what it means when the clinical tools of real-world killing become forms of consumer play.