Teachers who come to the film with students will receive specially prepared educational materials for additional work. The ticket price per student is a discounted PLN 15. You can sign up your class by sending an email to: akademia@againstgravity.pl
Thursday, May 18 maja | 12:00 | Kinoteka 7
Screening of the film "Knit's Island" by Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse i Quentin L'helgoualc'h, 106 min
Educational meeting after the screening with Benjamin Hanussek - 30 min
*Meeting in English with Polish translation
Scope: media space, virtual reality, computer games, ethics
Somewhere on the Internet, there is a space of 250 square kilometers in which individuals gather in a community to simulate a survivalist fiction. Under the guise of avatars, a film crew enters this place and makes contact with players. Who are these inhabitants? Are they actually playing? Through the encounters with these characters, the discovery of their fears and aspirations, and the creation of their own imaginary worlds, this film makes us look at the virtual world in a different way, and questions the future of our world.
Benjamin Hanussek is an educator and researcher in the field of game studies, design & development. He received his formal education at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. In 2022 he became an Austrian Marshall Plan Fellow enabling him to visit Teachers College at Columbia University in New York to conduct a research project on game-based learning. Currently, he directs PJAIT Game Lab at the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology in Warsaw where he teaches, consults and supervises video game projects. Moreover, he works at Lionbridge Games as professional video game tester where he is specialised in German localisations.
