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“…a must for performance-art students, latent Situationists, punks, hippies, radicals, cultural studies academics, and the unconscionably bored.”
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“Abridgement flies, dramatizing some of the clever work that players got to experience while addressing the right questions of motivation on both sides of the curtain.”
Lovely new review from the Wisconsin Film Festival. Read here
5/5 Stars from renowned Film Critic Mike Scott
Maybe the best review we have received yet. Read about it here.
Something Obvious Call The Institute “one of those films that really makes you think”
Smashing review from Something Obvious
San Francisco’s Baffling Jejune Institute Gets A Documentary
A Q&A between Rick Paulas and Spencer McCall. Read the article here.
SF State alumnus’ hunt leads to ‘The Institute,’ Slamdance acclaim
What McCall discovered was an endearing look at a quasi self-help organization that wanted nothing more than to unite the city under a bold and unconventional game where its participants were challenged to view the world around them through a different lens.
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Portraits from the 2013 slamdance Film Festival
Inventive, Complex World of ‘The Institute’
It’s just a fun, clever film about looking at the world from a different angle. Whether it’s all real, all fake, or some combination of the two, that doesn’t change. It’s the kind of movie people go to Slamdance to see, one that can’t quite be summed up as simply as the films further down the hill in Park City.” -Brian Tallerico (Hollywood Chicago)
Indiewire grades the institute
The results are in………….
Slug Magazine declares the institute “a well-spun story”
“Using a combination of interviews and film footage from the creators of the game and from participants, McCall puts together a well-spun story that takes viewers all the way down the rabbit hole.” -John Ford (Slug Magazine)
