Pre Evolution Soccer's One-Minute Dance After a Golden Goal in the Master League
Short Films and Mid-Lengths
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1m 9s
Directed by Miguel Gomes | 1 min | 2004
“Cinema is a game,” Gomes has said—a statement especially true of this briefest of shorts, a machinima that delights in the glitchy rhythms of the celebratory motions made by players in the Playstation game Pro Evolution Soccer.
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