"New Media Resistance: Machinima and the Avant-Garde" by Elijah Horwatt

 

“Somewhere between the video game and the CD-ROM there could be another way of making films….” - Jean-Luc Godard1

via cineaction.ca

Elijah Horwatt gives an excellent overview of avant-garde machinima works (films, often short, made within games such as Halo, Grand Theft Auto, Warcraft...

machinima.com is THE hub of the online community and Paul Marino's blog is also essential reading

http://blog.machinima.org/