08.09.2024 | KNIT’S ISLAND (FR 2023, Guilhem Causse, Ekiem Barbier, Quentin L’Helgoualc’h)

Topic | OUR SCREENS

FR 2023, D: Guilhem Causse, Ekiem Barbier, Quentin L’Helgoualc’h, 95’, English OV with German subtitles, DCP

The trio of directors from KNIT’S ISLAND – or rather their created characters – spent 963 hours travelling through the video game world of the online survival horror game DayZ. Their mission: to travel as journalists and stay alive long enough to immerse themselves in the cosmos of other gamers and exchange ideas with them. About motivations, goals and realities – inside and outside of virtual life and survival in it. From avatar to avatar. Before and during the COVID lockdowns, the filmmakers spent their time in the VR world of DayZ. KNIT’S ISLAND gives an impressive insight into the gaming aesthetics of this hyper-realistic mainstream horror game. It leaves us with the unsettling question of which world feels more real.