Total Refusal Movies

An ethnographic exploration of the work and daily life of non-player characters, the digital extras in video games. Their labor loops, activity...

Everything started with a utopia. To end the antagonism between the oppressors and the oppressed, between the owners and the own-nothings. To create...

It's an ordinary day in the game GTA V – but the car-crowded streets are marked by a grave absence. Protagonist Edgar searches for clues,...

The constructedness of the digital firmament becomes visible and points of contact between late capitalists, conspiracy theorist and romanticist...

This short film/video installation uses anecdotes that gamers share on internet forums to reflect on the feedback between the world of dreams and the...

The war zone of a dystopian multiplayer shooting game is used to embark some urban explorers on a winter walk, avoiding the combats whenever...

A football team warms up for the World Cup final, a golfer gets ready to take his first shot, and a rally duo sets off on a test drive, while their...

Dark Tourism in the Mud of Market Garden

Anti-war movie in the true sense of the word, searching for possibilities for peace in the most unlikely place of an online war game. It’s a...

Total Refusal meets with filmmaker and artist Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis in Los Santos, the digital city landscape of video game GTA V, to go on...