Film Record: Game

Still from Game. Image via Chicago Film Archives

Identifier:

• F. (Source: chicagofilmarchive.org )

Date produced: 1972

Filmmaker(s):

Wayne Williams

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:03:45

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Colour

Sound Notes:

Optical

Awards/Recognition:

Chicago Film Archives list of titled amateur work, 1971 Young Chicago Filmmaker’s Festival award winner.

Description:

"A South Shore High School student film that is an allegory on the wastefulness of war and the duplicity of those who wage it. Filmmaker Wayne Williams, who was 17 at the time, cuts back and forth between a chess game and a guerrilla theater war game to underscore the sense of importance of the fighters and the cynicism of those who control their lives - and deaths." Chicago Film Archives

Resources:

Part of the Young Chicago Filmmaker's Festival films held by Chicago Film Archives

Locations:

• Chicago, IL (Filming)

Subjects:

• African Americans
•      War
•      Teenagers

Genre:

• War

Form:

• Short

Repository:

Chicago Public Library Collection, Chicago Film Archives

Video Link:

• chicagofilmarchives.org

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