"Without even trying, Alex Chan has set off a minor revolution in animated
film making.
The 27-year old freelance industrial designer from suburban Paris had zero
experience in the obscure art form known as "machinima", but when he
decided to set the record straight on the underlying causes of the riots
that rocked France last month, this was his medium of choice.
The resulting 13-minute drama, made with an off-the-shelf software based
on the virtual world of video games, has provoked a small firestorm of
comment in the US - Chan's intended audience - as well as in his homeland,
due to its portrayal of deep-seated racism in France.
But it also landed like a bombshell in the far-flung but insular world of
amateur machinima film makers, who suddenly woke up to the fact that their
hybrid medium could be used for social or political commentary and not
just shoot 'em-up riffs on established video themes." From The Age today.
http://www.machinima.com/films.php?id=1407
It's 35 MB
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