Sounds like a game for 10 year olds. Also reminds me of a game you'd play at a carnival. Aside from that, I see no retail value.

Good try, though.
# posted by  Anonymous @ 8/07/2007 6:33 AM  

 
In response to anonymous: must everything have retail value? Mutable Cinema is "played" in public exhibition spaces, which makes the movie-game much more about the decisions that the "player" makes.

I'm not saying that it's revolutionary or anything, but I appreciate the attempt to experiment with narrative form.
# posted by  Chuck @ 8/07/2007 9:48 AM  

 
Reminds me of a proposal I heard to build a tool that helps illiterate people participate in political debate. A village or group can be given access to such an interactive video program and they can use it to explore the multiple sides of an issue. Then, they can create their own consensus on a narrative arc that best represents their opinions.

I think Mario Marquez's idea has real value in this realm in addition to general entertainment.
# posted by  David @ 8/10/2007 3:07 PM  

 
The project was designed out of the need of a way of trying different types of interactive narratives (branching, parralel, dynamic object oriented)in an open system. Also to give the user and/or the audience the power to have a better representation of their own reality in the film (does the hero always win?).
I would like to aknowledge Pedro Gonzalez and Kiyoshi Osawa as creators too and David Montie and David Kretz as developers of the project at the Banff New Media Institute.
# posted by  Mario @ 8/10/2007 5:44 PM  

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