Tickets
Tue 04 Feb 9:30PM
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TICKETS
Adults $22+BF
Concession $18+BF
TIMES
Film Starts 9.30PM
VENUE
Rooftop CinemaLevel 6, 252 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Computer Chess
Director Andrew Bujalski
Country USA
Year 2013
Duration 92 min
Rating M
“An endearingly nutty, proudly analog tribute to the ultra-nerdy innovators of yesteryear.” -Variety
In 1980, computer nerds assemble at a programming tournament to test their chess-playing machines. Filmed in black and white on vintage videotape, Andrew Bujalski’s sophisticated mockumentary begins as an oddball time capsule, but swiftly spirals into far weirder and more hilarious territory as these awkward geeks cross paths with free-spirited hippies on a New Age retreat.
Screening as part of the Speakeasy Cinema Selects series at Rooftop Cinema, every Tuesday evening through the ’13-14 season.
–The New Yorker“The most striking thing about the movie is its amazingly detailed and precise reconstruction of the styles of the day—the haircuts, the clothing, the eyeglasses, and the furnishing; the classic computer, down to the blinking C.R.T. cursor and the dot-matrix printer—and even the images themselves, which Bujalski and his cinematographer, Matthias Grunsky, created with archival, analogue, vacuum-tube-based video cameras (which are even seen onscreen).”