Country: USA
Year: 2013
Duration: 91'
The early 1980s, an era when the progress in computer technology seemed miraculous and programmers formed tribes of nerds busy resolving algorithms that were incomprehensible to most people. A time when the world looked with amazement, and perhaps even diffidence, at these youngsters who took on codes and bizarre challenges. Like the idea of letting the artificial intelligence of a computer beat its creator – man – at one of the oldest games around: chess.
Biography
film director
Andrew Bujalski
Andrew Bujalski (Boston, MA, USA, 1977) debuted in 2002 by writing and directing the mumblecore Funny Ha Ha, an independent and very low budget film that won Best Feature Film at the 2004 Black Point Film Festival and the Someone to Watch Award at the Independent Spirit Awards. The “New York Times” movie critic A.O. Scott named it one of the ten most important movies of the 2000s. His second feature film, Mutual Appreciation, received the Jury Award at the 2005 Newport International Film Festival. Besides working as a director and screenwriter, Bujalski is also an actor and has taught at Boston University and the University of Texas.
FILMOGRAFIA
Funny Ha Ha (2002), Mutual Appreciation (2005), Peoples House (cm, 2007), Beeswax (2009), Computer Chess (2013).
Declaration
film director
“What on Earth made me think that it was a good idea to make an existential comedy about the oddball geniuses who thought it important that a machine learn to defeat its masters at, of all things, chess? For a decade now I’ve been making features on 16mm film, and people have asked constantly, ‘Why don’t you just shoot on video?’ Right, I wondered, why don’t I? Why don’t I dig up a beautiful, really outdated old video camera and start dreaming in a language of images that time has passed by entirely? Computer Chess was a long, fondly held fantasy project for me and certainly the most purely intuitive thing I’ve ever undertaken.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, SCENEGGIATURA, MONTAGGIO
Andrew Bujalski
FOTOGRAFIA
Matthias Grunsky
SCENOGRAFIA
Michael Bricker
COSTUMI
Colin Wilkes
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Patrick Riester (Peter Bishton), Wiley Wiggins (Martin Beuscher), Myles Paige (Michael Papageorge), Robin Schwartz (Shelly Flintic), Gerald Peary (Pat Henderson), Gordon Kindlmann (Tom Schoesser)
PRODUTTORI
Houston King, Alex Lipschultz
Andrew Bujalski
FOTOGRAFIA
Matthias Grunsky
SCENOGRAFIA
Michael Bricker
COSTUMI
Colin Wilkes
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Patrick Riester (Peter Bishton), Wiley Wiggins (Martin Beuscher), Myles Paige (Michael Papageorge), Robin Schwartz (Shelly Flintic), Gerald Peary (Pat Henderson), Gordon Kindlmann (Tom Schoesser)
PRODUTTORI
Houston King, Alex Lipschultz
