Game Play

Directed by James Dearden · Starring Matt Swart, Bryn Hodgen, John Celea · 2014

Sent outside to play away from his computer games, young Jack recreates his favourite war game's battlefield in his head, while his father watches him mime a fight against thin air.

A slick VFX-driven short that shows a boy's video-game fantasy as he sees it, building to a shocking final moment.

Game Play follows a small boy, Jack, and his vivid imagination as he is made to play outside away from his computer games. To entertain himself he recreates the derelict landscape and 'bad guys' seen in his video game us

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