Layers
A couple living in a house at the top of a hill. The husband loves photography and his wife loves painting. Eventually they have a kid. They take pictures and draw paintings of her. Both happy and sad events become part of their memories through the photographs and paintings. They become engraved as the family history in their lovely house. They grow older and spend their final days together.
From the archive
Layers is a mashup narrative machinima created with footage from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS2), Military footage from an Apache Helicopter in Iraq (Public Domain/Department of Defense), and Shadow of the Colossus (PS2). Recorded almost entirely through a sniper scope from the game, it extends the conversation about the relationship between increasingly sophisticated military technology and the drive towards visual realism in videogames. What happens to the relationship between killer and victim when they are separated by real and virtual distances? Adding the layer of virtuality through the videogame complicates this relationship even further.
Why this is free to watch
Layers (2021) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Takuya Uchiyama
- Starring
- Shiori Nozawa, Kousei Kimura
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