Vakondok 2 - Demoscene (2011)

In the 1980's, something changed the world forever. Computer technology, mostly due to the appearance of affordable Commodore 64's, entered households worldwide, providing the opportunity ... See full summary »

Director:

Szilárd Matusik

Writers:

Gábor Csépai, Szilárd Matusik

Stars:

Anders Lassen, András Kövér, Balázs Oszvald

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Anders Lassen	...	Duckers
András Kövér	...	Slyspy
Balázs Oszvald	...	Poison
Balázs Vasvári	...	Reptile
Barna Buza	...	BoyC
Bartek Dramczyk	...	V0yager
Charles Bulckaen	...	Xtrium
Csaba Kémeri	...	Unreal
Dávid Halmi	...	Nagz
Erika Wittmann	...	Ziona
Gábor Kükedi	...	Küki
Gábor Pap	...	Remage
Gergely Szelei Kis	...	Gargaj
Grzegorz Juraszek	...	Fei
Hakon	...	Himself

Storyline

In the 1980's, something changed the world forever. Computer technology, mostly due to the appearance of affordable Commodore 64's, entered households worldwide, providing the opportunity for everyone to create digital art. But existing art forms weren't the only ones to be re-implemented on these computers; brand new forms of art also appeared, ones thought to be impossible up to that point. Computers provided an opportunity for the creator to produce visuals and sound effects and combine them to create the ultimate audiovisual experience, by using only the language of mathematics and writing program code, without physical interaction. As a result of such techniques, demos were born, and with them, the demoscene subculture. A demo can best be understood as a spectacular animated music video which is usually a few minutes long. And yet it's something entirely different from a traditional video. Computer technics is the fastest developing part of our world, which produces more and more...

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Plot Keywords:

graphic artist | music artist | pc | c64 | amiga | 

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Taglines:

The Art of the Algorithms

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Genres:

Documentary

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Details

Official Sites:

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Country:

Hungary

Language:

Hungarian

Release Date:

17 November 2011 (Hungary)

Also Known As:

Moleman 2 - Demoscene

Filming Locations:

Ajkarendek, Hungary

Company Credits

Production Co:

Flame Film Bt.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min

Color:

Color (HD)

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the film, Slyspy notes that a lot of the demoscene productions are finished in the last minute. Perhaps fittingly, the film itself was only finished on the day of the premiere.

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Quotes

Slyspy: Everyone has way too little time to make demos, so things are left to the last minute. You usually go without sleep for the last few days, only concentrating on your demo. That usually manifests as flaws and little imperfections, because they're literally finished at the last minute, but this also provides a thrill that keeps people going. So in a sense it's like a mental extreme sport.

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Crazy Credits

The opening titles are done, fittingly, in the style of a C64 cracktro and a loader-bar respectively.

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Connections

Follows Vakondok (2010)

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Soundtracks

Smiling Face
Written by Vincenzo (László Vincze)

User Reviews

Great "historical" audio-visual movie

I know this movie from the director's mom- she recommended it to me. Well - I said - I'll give it a shot. After the first minute I could nonstop watching it since I was growing up in the 8 bit area and on this "historical" time line I came across some of the movie's demo/scene by chance - sweet memories.

Watching this movie I realized: wow these people are (still)around? They are making these things which are sometime much more better than a multi million dollar budgeted movie?

So even if you are younger it worth to watch because the visuals and the music is excellent and who knows? You might get inspired and become the next world famous scene coder.