Publicity
Darkon
Ethnography on a grand cinematic canvas, DARKON is an 84-minute exploration of an unusual group of weekend "warrior knights," fantasy role-playing gamers whose live-action battleground is modern-day suburban Baltimore re-imagined as a medieval world called Darkon. Directors Andrew Neel and Luke Meyer put three years into the project, first gaining the trust and access they needed from their subjects, then tackling their "in-character" fantasy world with the epic vocabulary we've come to expect from movies about Knights in Shining Armor: aerial and crane shots, history-making battle sequences, and a rousing original score. In character, the people we meet are powerful leaders who participate in an emotionally rich social hierarchy; but we also see how easily "real life" gets in the way, and learn what drove them to become so involved in the fantasy world of Darkon in the first place. While maintaining an essential and clinical distance, DARKON at the same time enters the subjective imaginations of its participants and celebrates the inner-workings of a culture that lies just beneath the surface of everyday American life.
- Darkon on IMDb
- SXSW Film Festival
- Hotdocs Documentary Festival
- Maryland Festival
- Silverdocs Film Festival
- LA Film Festival
- Britdoc
- Melbourne International Film Festival
Primary contacts
Information Requests
publicity@ovie.com
Christine Richardson,Jeremy Walker+Associates
christine@jeremywalker.com
917-547-6876
Talent Available:
Co-directors Andrew Neel and Luke Meyer, and DARKON subject Skip Lipman (Bannor of Laconia) can be available upon request.
