The Surrounding Game (2017)
- Directed by
- Will Lockhart, Cole D. Pruitt
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 17 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
This documentary follows several players competing in a tournament to crown America's first professional Go player. It tracks their training and matches over four years across multiple countries.
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What happens
The Surrounding Game is a 2017 documentary about the game of Go. The film was directed by Will Lockhart and Cole Pruitt, who conceived of the project at Brown University. Lockhart and Pruitt also founded the American Collegiate Go Association. The Surrounding Game follows the tournament played to establish America's first professional Go player. It was filmed over the course of a four-year period in several countries, following the paths of several players in the tournament: Andy Liu, the tournament's eventual winner and first American professional player Ben Lockhart, director Will Lockhart's brother, an expat American studying Go in Korea Curtis Tang, a child prodigy Gansheng Shi, a Canadian Go player and second American Go professional The film also features Go Seigen in a short segment filmed only a year or so before his death. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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