Archive of films Computer Chess / Computer Chess
USA
2013, 92 min
Section:
Made in Texas: Tribute to Austin Film Society
Year: 2018
Computer Chess is set in the 1980s at a man-versus-computer chess tournament. The film is a comedic and philosophical examination of the relationship between ideas and technology and of the absurdity accompanying innovation.
Synopsis
Filmmaker Andrew Bujalski graduated from Harvard’s film school and started making very personal 16 mm features shortly after his graduation. The critically-acclaimed films Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation marked Bujalski as a major new film talent. A few years later he headed to Austin, Texas and immersed himself in the town’s film scene, where his next four features would be shot. Computer Chess, a comedic and philosophical examination of the relationship between ideas and technology – and the absurdity accompanying innovation – may be Bujalski’s most formally ambitious film. Set in the 1980s at a man-versus-computer chess tournament, it is the only feature to be shot on the Sony AVC-3260 “tube” camera, the short-lived device that spanned the film-to-video transition.
Holly Herrick
About the director
Andrew Bujalski (b. 1977, Boston, Massachusetts, USA). Selected filmography: Funny Ha Ha (2002), Mutual Appreciation (2005), Computer Chess (2013), Results (2015), Support the Girls (2018)
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About the film
Color, Black & White, Blu-ray
Section: | Made in Texas: Tribute to Austin Film Society |
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Director: | Andrew Bujalski |
Screenplay: | Andrew Bujalski |
Dir. of Photography: | Matthias Grunsky |
Editor: | Andrew Bujalski |
Art Director: | Michael Bricker |
Producer: | Houston King, Alex Lipschultz |
Production: | Computer Chess LLC |
Cast: | Patrick Riester, Myles Paige, James Curry, Robin Schwartz, Gerald Peary |
Sales: | The Film Sales Company |
www: | www.computerchessmovie.com |
Guests
Andrew Bujalski
Film Director
Matthias Grunsky
Director of Photography