Knit's Island

Knit's Island

2024 · 95 min · ★ 6.9 · Documentary

Somewhere on the internet is a land where communities pretend to live out a survivalist fiction. The avatars of the directors of Knit’s Island spent 963 hours there, creating a fascinating film resulting from their encounter with these communities. The “players” reveal their fears and fantasies, in an at times unsettling blurring of the real and the virtual.

Directed by Ekiem Barbier

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