The Game is Not the Thing: Sport and the Moving Image

No time for winners (or losers)! Spanning 13 decades of filmmaking, from pre-cinema to post-internet, guest curators Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere’s six-part screening and performance series challenges the idea that the worlds of sports and art are mutually exclusive. The Game is Not the Thing offers an antidote to commercial documentary and mainstream feature film narratives, looking instead to the creative and critical approaches that artists and amateurs bring to the “sports film.”

Read Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere’s discussion of the series and the paradoxical nature of sports and fandom in their essay on the Walker Reader.