Made in Texas: Tribute to Austin Film Society 2018 / Computer Chess / USA 2013
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.
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
92 min / Color, Black & White, Blu-ray
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
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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Andrew Bujalski
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