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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Geri's Game
Jan Pinkava,
Pixar
Original: Geri's Game | 4144 * 2769px | 36.5 MB
Original: Geri's Game | 4144 * 2769px | 36.5 MB
Original: PR_1998_gerisgame_001_o.jpg | 2400 * 1477px | 3.0 MB
Geri, an old man, plays chess in the park against himself. Somehow, he manages to win every time -even if it means cheating.
Gens Game opens in the morning of a sunny autumn day. Geri sets up the chess pieces and begins playing. He is a kindly looking old man, but when he walks around the table to make moves for the black side, he becomes his nasty alter-ego, faster and younger, who loves to humiliate his opponent. We follow the game in Geri's imagination as nasty Geri drives nice Geri to the brink of defeat. Nice Geri finally wins by cheating outrageously and demands his winnings from a bet on the game. The film ends with Geri, on his own, enjoying the spoils of battle at the end of the day. Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.
Gens Game opens in the morning of a sunny autumn day. Geri sets up the chess pieces and begins playing. He is a kindly looking old man, but when he walks around the table to make moves for the black side, he becomes his nasty alter-ego, faster and younger, who loves to humiliate his opponent. We follow the game in Geri's imagination as nasty Geri drives nice Geri to the brink of defeat. Nice Geri finally wins by cheating outrageously and demands his winnings from a bet on the game. The film ends with Geri, on his own, enjoying the spoils of battle at the end of the day. Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.
Jan Pinkava (GB), won his first prize in animation from a BBC TV children's film competition, when he was still a boy. He holds a BS in computer Science and a PhD in Theoretical Robotics. In 1990 he joined Digital Pictures in London and since 1993 he is member of Pixar's Short Group. His first commercial at pixar, Listerine Arrows, won a Gold Clio for best animation.