MindGamers

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Movie
German title MindGamers
Original title MindGamers
Country of production Austria
original language English
Publishing year 2015
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 16
Rod
Director Andrew Goth
script Joanne Reay ,
Andrew Goth
production Walter Köhler ,
Joanne Reay
music Ben Fowler
camera John Pardue
cut Thomas Ilg
occupation

MindGamers is an Austrian production from 2015 . The film , directed by Andrew Goth, premiered on October 4, 2015 under the title DxM ( Deus ex machina ) at Grimmfest ( UK ). The cinema release took place in the USA on March 28, 2017, in Germany the film opened on April 6, in Austria on April 7, 2017.

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A group of young and brilliant students achieved a major scientific breakthrough at the DxM Academy , an elite university: They discovered that with the help of quantum theory, motor and intellectual abilities can be transferred from one brain to another and they built a neural network in which several brains are wirelessly connected to each other. A quantum computer acts as a server . Believing that this technology could lead to intellectual equality and freedom worldwide, they make their knowledge and discovery available to the general public.

Team leader Jaxon soon attracts the attention of scientist Kreutz. Kreutz realizes that Jaxon, like himself in the past, uncompromisingly places his success above everything else and is also prepared to make considerable sacrifices for it. After a member of Jaxon's research group commits suicide with the mentally unstable Agnes, Stella takes her place. Stella and Kreutz share a dark secret from the past. She makes Jaxon question everything he believed in until then. The new technology no longer appears as hope, but as a danger to humanity after dark forces begin to abuse it to control crowds and impose their will on them.

Production and Background

Campus WU, location for the DxM Academy

The shooting took place from June to August 2014 in Bucharest and Vienna , among other things the WU campus of the Vienna University of Economics served as the shooting location . The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute . The film was produced by Terra Mater Film Studios GmbH , a subsidiary of Red Bull GmbH . Marius Stanescu was responsible for the sound, Max Wohlkönig for the costume design and Caroline Story for the production design. Members of the team of quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger acted as scientific advisors . The title song I heard it through the Grapevine was interpreted by The Wanton Bishops .

Before the cinema release, Red Bull hosted the first world championship for mental sports professionals under the title “Mission: Unlock Enoch World Finals” from March 23 to 25, 2017 in Budapest , where the best “Mind Gamer” and “Escape Room” conquerors were determined should be. The tasks were developed by the MIT Game Lab and the Vienna University of Technology . More than 9,000 people took part in the selection process for the World Cup; teams from 22 countries and two wildcard teams took part in the World Cup. Several Escape Rooms were set up on an area of ​​500 square meters , in which the teams were locked in and had to escape within a given time by using the existing elements and solving a series of tasks and puzzles.

The US film premiere was linked to a live scientific experiment. The brain activity of around 1000 spectators in New York City and Los Angeles was measured using electroencephalography , followed by a live analysis of the data collected. Mikey Siegel from Stanford University was one of the participants .

reception

The cinema magazine Skip wrote: “Despite the Hollywood-style look, MindGamers is an Austrian production […]. And so there is also a lot of homeland reference: Ursula Strauss can be seen in a supporting supporting role as the ambitious Professor Da'Silva. And those familiar with Vienna will recognize the DxM Academy [...]: The new WU campus served as the location and is really ideal as a future location. "

The Hamburger Abendblatt wrote that the prominent production would hardly convince. The scenes would only look like quotes from Illuminati or the Matrix , the "convoluted and meaningful dialogues" would be even less convincing, the plot often appear "confused and dreary". Filmstarts described the film as a "cerebral and headless science fiction vision" and a "crude and increasingly arbitrary mishmash of wild scientific motifs, religious whispers and dark, cool neo-goth aesthetics". The premise would be very promising, but all the exciting aspects of the film would soon be buried under unnecessary complications and eventually sink completely into arbitrariness. Similar assessment derStandard.at that the film as "confused conglomerate of ideas that did not make it into a meaningful script" with Dan Brown called -Versatzstücken: "The fact that the production will tell a story, you can at best only guess." The daily Kurier said that the best thing about the film was the credits and judged it: "A puzzling, boring, confusingly told, absurd and at times involuntarily funny film."

Awards and nominations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for MindGamers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for MindGamers . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Grimmfest - DXM - World premiere . Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  4. ↑ MindGamers (2017) - Release Info - IMDb . Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b SKIP - Das Kinomagazin / MindGamers . Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  6. ↑ Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved March 16, 2017 .
  7. ↑ a b "MindGamers": Austrian sci-fi thriller in the quantum universe ( Memento from August 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated March 31, 2017, accessed April 2, 2017.
  8. ↑ Red Bull Mind Gamers: First World Championship for Brain Sports Professionals . Article dated March 19, 2017, accessed March 8, 2020.
  9. ↑ futurezone.at: Red Bull Mind Gamers: Escape Room World Cup final in Budapest . Article dated April 6, 2017, accessed April 7, 2017.
  10. ↑ Hollywood premiere with Vorarlberg participation . Article dated April 1, 2017, accessed April 2, 2017.
  11. ↑ Sci-Fi thriller "MindGamers": My brain is your brain too . Article dated April 4, 2017, accessed April 5, 2017.
  12. ↑ MindGamers - The Filmstarts Criticism on FILMSTARTS.de . Retrieved April 5, 2017.
  13. ↑ derStandard.at: "Mindgamers": Kutten und Kittel . Article dated April 5, 2017, accessed April 6, 2017.
  14. ^ Kurier: "MindGamers": A handful of nerds lose themselves in the quantum universe on the Vienna WU campus . Article dated April 6, 2017, accessed April 7, 2017.
  15. ↑ Nominations for the Austrian Film Prize 2018 . Retrieved December 6, 2017.