The Institute (2013)

Directed by

Spencer McCall

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about an alternate reality game that took place in San Francisco. It shows how thousands of people got involved and what they experienced.

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What happens

The Institute is a 2012 documentary film directed by Spencer McCall reconstructing the story of The Jejune Institute, an alternate reality game set in San Francisco, through interviews with the participants and the creators. The game was produced in 2008 by Oakland-based artist Jeff Hull. Over the course of three years, it enrolled more than 10,000 players who, responding to eccentric flyers plastered all over the city, started the game by receiving their "induction" at the fake headquarters of the Institute, located in an office building in San Francisco's Financial District. The series Dispatches from Elsewhere is based on this documentary film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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