KINDERFILM (AT, 2023, 12 min)
It's an ordinary day in Grand Theft Auto V. And yet, the car-crowded streets are marked by a grave absence. Searching for clues, protagonist Edgar explores the uncanniness of his normality and rediscovers a beautiful yet nightmarish world.

HARDLY WORKING (AT, 2022, 20 min)
NPCs are digital Sisyphus machines that have no perspective of breaking out of their activity loops. In the moments when the algorithm shows inconsistencies, the NPCs break out of the logic of total normality, and appear touchingly human.

OPERATION JANE WALK (AT, 2018, 16 min)
A city tour through the architecture of Manhattan within an online shooter game.

ABOUT
Total Refusal is a pseudo-marxist media guerilla collective focused on the artistic intervention and appropriation of mainstream video games. They upcycle video games in order to reveal the political apparatus beyond the glossy and hyperreal textures of this media.