IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS / Bassam Issa (IE)
IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS, a 30-minute-long CGI film, is the second part of an imaginary video game which follows an ambiguous “hero” undergoing numerous metamorphoses. The film challenges the amped-up constructed masculinity that video game avatars embody as well as the associated idealistic connotations of progress, growth, and transformation. Rather than just embracing the potential of computer-animated worlds, the film inverts their “logic” and questions their highly politicized and constructed nature.
Written, directed and animated by Bassam Issa. Commissioned by the Douglas Hyde Gallery. Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Photo Credit: Bassam Issa,IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS, 2022, Installation view, The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art, Dublin. Image courtesy The Douglas Hyde and the artist. Photography Louis Haugh
IT'S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS / Bassam Issa (IE)
IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS, a 30-minute-long CGI film, is the second part of an imaginary video game which follows an ambiguous “hero” undergoing numerous metamorphoses. The film challenges the amped-up constructed masculinity that video game avatars embody as well as the associated idealistic connotations of progress, growth, and transformation. Rather than just embracing the potential of computer-animated worlds, the film inverts their “logic” and questions their highly politicized and constructed nature.
Written, directed and animated by Bassam Issa. Commissioned by the Douglas Hyde Gallery. Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Photo Credit: Bassam Issa,IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS, 2022, Installation view, The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art, Dublin. Image courtesy The Douglas Hyde and the artist. Photography Louis Haugh