Games You Can't Win
20168m
Documentary
- Runtime
- 8m
- Genre
- Documentary
- Origin
- United States of America
About
A transgender woman, a sufferer of severe mental illness, and the parents of a child with cancer transform their experiences into intensely personal video games.
Games You Can’t Win explores “empathy” gaming, a new video game movement in which developers are sharing some of their most intimate or traumatic personal experiences through artful, documentary-style video games. Using a combination of intimate verité footage and video capture from the games, the short film tells the stories of three developer and the personal experiences that inspired their game.
Where to watch
Not available to stream in United States yet.
Details
- Director
- Malika Zouhali-Worrall, David Osit
- Status
- Released
- Released
- Mar 17, 2016
- Studio
- Chicken & Egg Films
Cast
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