GAMER

Gamer was one of the Official Selections from the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology’s 2024 festival that accepted the Filmmaker Mixer Podcast offer to review their work. It is a live action series of three short episodes about a young boy named Sam. Each of the three episodes focus on him treating a task or chore he’s given like it’s a level in a video game: in episode one he’s doing the dishes, in episode two he’s doing a lab project and in episode 3, he attempts to complete previously uncompleted classwork. This series is very refreshing because his hobby, video games, isn’t actually treated that much like a bad thing. There’s a lot of charm to be found with this series, particularly with how the video-game level sequences are done. My favorite part, however, is probably the end credits, which themselves look like a video-game.

-Madelyn, Filmmaker Mixer Correspondent