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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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