Video games will have their own space at the Turin Cinema Museum, they will have their own “chapelle” which will be called “Video Game Zone” and will be inaugurated on July 2nd at 11am. It will be one of the first permanent museum sections in the world dedicated to video games and the inauguration will take place with a masterclass by David Cage, founder of the Quantic Dream studio, one of the most appreciated video game creators in the world. The National Cinema Museum will award him a Mole star.
The visitor will be immersed in a journey halfway between creativity and technology, thanks to a creation of clips of cinematographic works that have been inspired by gaming culture. Four stations will show captions and trailers of video games, introducing the public to the process of creation with archive images related to the “making of” or “game play”, offering a cross-section of knowledge of the aesthetics of a category that, thanks to the advent of the PC, has changed the way of managing free time.
There will also be exhibition cases, containing “concept art”, design documents, sketches and materials from the various most loved narrative universes of video games.
President Enzo Ghigo speaks of a “historical period of great and rapid transformations that must be intercepted and made available to visitors”.
According to director Domenico De Gaetano, it is “the creation of a unique space of its kind, inserted in the museum itinerary, which tells of the increasingly strong link between video games and cinema, disciplines characterized by different personalities and different methods of fruition, but which have notable mutual influences.”
The chapel of the temple of cinema is curated in collaboration with the University of Turin by Domenico De Gaetano, director of the Cinema Museum, and by Fabio Viola.
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