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Game

A South Shore High School student film that is an allegory on the wastefulness of war and the duplicity of those who wage it. Filmmaker Wayne Williams, who was 17 at the time, cuts back and forth between a chess game and a guerrilla theater war game to underscore the sense of importance of the fighters and the cynicism of those who control their lives - and deaths. The film is part of a series of student films that all won awards at the 1971 Young Chicago Filmmaker’s Festival.

Credits

Wayne Williams (director)

Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Chicago Public Library Collection
Subjects: African Americans; Students; Youth
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Cfa elements: 170 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/8607

More in Young Chicago Filmmaker’s Festival

  1. 1-A 1970
  2. Das Uttle Humper 1970
  3. The 2-Year Machine 1970
  4. You And Me 1970
  5. 158 W. Erie 1971
  6. Close to You By the Carpenters 1971
  7. In the Divine Plan 1971
  8. Lurking Unbookish 1971
  9. Ratamata 1971
  10. Sugar Mountain 1971
  11. What’s the Matter With Kids Today? 1971
  12. February 31st 1972
  13. Game 1972
  14. Lift 1973

Sources

  1. Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video

Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:01