Get Lamp

Get Lamp

Before the first-person shooter there was the second-person thinker.

2010 · 78 min · ★ 6.6 · Documentary

GET LAMP is a documentary about interactive fiction (also known as text adventures) filmed by computer historian Jason Scott.

Directed by Jason Scott · Written by Jason Scott

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★ 6.82018
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Puppets! Pixels! Anime! Live action! Stock footage! Lumpennerd Johannes Grenzfurthner gives an ideotaining cinematic revue about important political concepts. Everyone is talking about freedom! Privacy! Identity! Resistance! The Market! The Left! But, yikes, Johannes can't tolerate ignorant and topically abusive comments on the "Internet" anymore! Supported by writer Ishan Raval, in this film, Johannes explains, re-evaluates, and sometimes sacrifices political golden calves of discourse. Not to be used with false consciousness or silicone-based lubricant.
DEFCON: The DocumentaryDEFCON: The Documentary · 2013
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★ 6.22013
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Masking ThresholdMasking Threshold · 2022
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★ 5.62022
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Conducting a series of experiments in his makeshift home-lab, a skeptic IT worker tries to cure his harrowing hearing impairment. But where will his research lead him? "Masking Threshold" combines a chamber play, a scientific procedural, an unpacking video, and a DIY YouTube channel while suggesting endless vistas of existential pain and decay. Glimpse the world of the nameless protagonist in this eldritch tale, which is by no means for the faint of heart.
SolventSolvent · 2024
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★ 4.82024
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Je Suis AutoJe Suis Auto · 2024
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An ill-tempered middle-management mafioso is set on delivering a suitcase full of money. Little does he know that taking an ontologically challenged self-driving taxi puts them on a collision course with fate-and a badly dressed pirate.
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2023
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