I can save her

«I can save her» allocates a mission from the video game The Last Of Us into a voice-over of an experimental short film, merging the narrative with the physical reality of the players’ bodies and the computer generated fragmented scape. The hero, only known by a disembodied voice, encourages character to fulfill the mission by saying «I can save her». The film slows down the game’s quest and brings the players’ bodies into a vacated atmosphere, it washes out saturated colors and a loaded soundtrack. Treating of time, color palette, and materiality of footages forms the basis for a methodology that examines the interactive digital action scenarios, which are primarily consumed by a male audience. While evoking discomfort and uncanniness, it points out to the normalization and idealization of violence in media that reinforces the notion of an ‘Other’, an enemy..
Los protagonistas, jugadores habituales de videojuegos, participaron en un taller de práctica somática para la película, donde se desarrolló la coreografía.

The protagonists, who are regular video game players, joined a somatic practice workshop for the film, where the choreography was developed.