A golfer fails to strike, a soccer team plays against itself, and a rally co-driver loses direction. World at Stake unfolds on a field where movement fades and action stalls.
At its center: an audience unable to act, that remains present, yet unresponsive.
Shot in sports video games, the film World at Stake turns the ordering principles of victory and defeat upside down and negotiates social roles between individual sovereignty and collective passivity. In the face of catastrophe, a sense of political powerlessness remains: collective, persistent, and difficult to name.
Nothing less than the world is at stake.
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World at Stake
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World at Stake / Total Refusal - Photo: Total Refusal
World at Stake / Total Refusal - Photo: Total Refusal
World at Stake / Total Refusal - Photo: Total Refusal
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Total Refusal
The media guerilla Total Refusal is a collective of artists, researchers, and filmmakers who upcycle the resources of mainstream video games to create political narratives in the form of videos, interventions, performances, and lectures. Their work has been screened at over 250 film and art festivals and exhibited at various spaces. The films premiered at Berlinale '20, Locarno '22 und '23. Since their foundation in 2018, Total Refusal have been awarded with more than 50 prizes and honorary mentions, amongst them Locarnos Best Short Direction Award 2022 and Best Shortfilm at the European Film Awards 2023.
Credits
Cast— Voice Acting: Jacob Banigan, Jan-Wieger van der Berg | 3D Model: Patrik Tagunoff | NPCs in the video games: FIFA 2023, PGA Tour 2k21, DiRT Rally 2.0 | Crew— Director: Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein | Cinematographer: Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein | Sound Recording: Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein | Sound Design: Bernhard Zorzi | Editor: Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein | Composer: Adrian Jonas Haim I Modding: Nikola Supukovic, Jakob Sam | Title Design: Michael Stumpf | Supported by „Pixel, Bytes + Film,“ funding program of the Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport (BMWKMS) in cooperation with ORF III
Presented in the context of European Digital Deal. European Digital Deal is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport.
