"RPG OKC" Directed by Emily Carmichael
Bursting with imagination and sweet comedic appeal, this short from Emily Carmichael, a graduate of NYU’s MFA Program, chronicles the online relationship of two fantasy video game characters.
Toying with the grandiose, antique language of the genre by injecting some blunt, modern questions and advice from sidekicks, Carmichael presents a highly stylized film with a great sense of comedic timing. The clunky old school movements and scrolling text allow Carmichael to mess with standard video game design in a way that brings awkward perfection to a tenuous, star cross’d love while treating their courtship as both realistic and epic. It an altogether clever blend of rudeness and romance.
For more of Carmichael's work, check out the excellent Sundance short "The Hunter and the Swan Discuss Their Meeting." She's only just recently completed a successful Kickstarter campaign for a new webseries and was selected as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. This wonderful new short film is her most recent work. It premiered at Tribeca.
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