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Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane’s Grand Theft Hamlet is now showing exclusively on MUBI.
Grand Theft Hamlet began in January 2021, a time of global anxiety yet also remarkable community resilience.
Walking with our children on the Hackney marshes, we discovered the creative potential of online game spaces and found the inspiration for our film.
As the world began to open up again in the aftermath of the pandemic we began to think about how different worlds—physical, fictional, artistic, virtual—were merging as the boundaries between them seemed to dissolve.
On a trip to the Louvre, we were fascinated to see how the crowd in Veronese’s Wedding Feast at Cana seemed to spill out of the painting to stand and stare at the Mona Lisa opposite.
Here, we experiment with merging the physical and the digital:
