![]() himself understood it, half the art of storytelling was to keep a story free. There is the handsome man played by Prometheus actor Logan Marshall Green, a frustrated nurse caring for her daughter alone (Kerry Bishe of Argo), a spiky activist ( X-Men’s Alexandra Shipp) and a chameleonic cam-girl played by Westworld’s Angela Sarafyan. her, Arendt developed a conception of political theory as storytelling. ![]() ![]() She has got her hands on an external hard drive, packed with hundreds of short clips made up of covert surveillance tapes and video calls between a handful of key players and supporting characters. You ‘play’ as an unknown woman reflected in the glow of a PC screen. To wit: the weaponisation of the computer search bar. It is a game of considerably increased scope -more lavish, layered and unwieldy than Her Story- but one that retains that game’s smarts and driving ethos. Now, in a post- Black Mirror: Bandersnatch world (in which malleable television has been thrust into mainstream consciousness), Barlow is at it again with Telling Lies. It was also a shot in the arm for the somewhat underground live-action ‘ interactive fiction’ renaissance. How it twisted and turned no matter what snippet of info you uncovered was a work of tangled yet understated brilliance. Sam Barlow’s BAFTA-snaffling Her Story was a fabulously tight and taut whodunwhat as you pieced together the tale of a mysterious young woman from a jumbled collection of police interview clips.
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