How About A Nice Game Of Chess

A cross media experimtental study I did for an art class (113 w/ Laurel Beckman) on Adobe Premier. First time I've made something like this, and I hadn't edited digital video since high school--I almost decided not to make it.

The theme is (loosely) about risk (intuition vs. reason) as embodied in the game of tic tac toe. Clips were edited from the 1982 Cold War cheeseball thriller, WarGames, and music is "Satie" by the dynamic NY punk duo, Japanther.

UPDATE:
Added as the first video to my "Bruce Willis" aka "Home Movies From the American Tradition (1979-)" video series

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• wargames
• japanther
• ucsb
• tic
• tac
• toe
• experimental
• satie
• andrew
• huang

[JackNightingale]

sterile

[andytron]

beat it, punk

[maryadance]

The point of this is that the all-powerful Joshua (the computer) was a top secret mainframe the US Air Force would depend on in the event of a nuclear attack by The Soviets. While the computer is busy feeding game data of inbound Soviet missiles, Joshua tries to guess the encrypted launch code that launches the US missiles and win. The hero of the story plays Tic-Tac-Toe against Joshua, which ultimately learns the concept of futility: there is no winner. Better to play a nice game of Chess.

[quosmo1]

chess?

[themanwiththepan]

XKCD'S optimal tic-tac-toe moves beat wargames.

[ferhordlingrads]

This is really well done. The music is very, very fitting, but it also reminds me of Star Control 2, an early nineties game.

[angelmassb]

Since when Tic Tac Toe is Chess

[SquishToGo]

Re-edit it to 5-D tic tac toe and you'll have a hit.

[OverUnknownn]

boring or what!?

[jmm1233]

defcon is now an actual game that you can't win

[jukimv1986]

great video! :D

i must see that film!