Andrea Gatopoulos’ Red Dead Online Short Is Now Streaming – Killscreen

News Happy New Year, Jim, a 2022 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight selection, follows two players through New Year’s Eve inside the Western game. A still from Happy New Year, Jim . Image: Andrea Gatopoulos Nouvelle Bug, the film residency founded by Andrea Gatopoulos, has put Gatopoulos’ short Happy New Year, Jim on its Nouvelle Bug Cinémathèque YouTube channel, it announced in a reel on Oct. 2. The nine-minute film premiered at the 2022 Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes and is also on Vimeo. Watch an excerpt below. 0:00 /0:57 An excerpt from Happy New Year, Jim , with sound, as posted by Nouvelle Bug. The full film is on Vimeo . Video: Andrea Gatopoulos, Nouvelle Bug The film is shot inside Red Dead Online. Two players credited by their usernames, J1M (Jim Muzungu) and M0rt3n (Morten Hakke), spend New Year’s Eve playing “like every day,” according to the Directors’ Fortnight listing. Tonight, Morten is uncomfortable. The pair are heard in voice-over against the game’s Western landscape at dusk and after dark, talking about the game and about their own lives. In a program note for the Encounters Film Festival in Bristol, critic Lillian Crawford wrote that “the fabric of the film itself
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