VF Gamemaking Residency Launch: Ghost in the Shell (1995) Screening

Kicking off the 2026 Vector Festival Gamemaking Residency, you’re invited to a screening of Ghost in the Shell (1995), hosted by Gamemaking Residency curator, Bracy Appeikumoh.

The film has a runtime of 1hr 23min and will begin after curator remarks at 7:30. 

About the Movie 🦾

In the year 2029, the barriers of our world have been broken down by the net and by cybernetics, but this brings new vulnerability to humans in the form of brain-hacking. When a highly-wanted hacker known as ‘The Puppetmaster’ begins involving them in politics, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop the Puppetmaster.

About the Gamemaking Residency

Where are your guts? is a video game residency supporting development of conceptual games, ending in a showcase opportunity with Vector Festival. With technical and curatorial support, gamemakers in residence explore technologies pushed to the forefront of dystopian imaginings and the warnings against them, asking how we could create symbiotic systems for the good of our bodies, our ecosystems, and our self-actualizations.

About the Curator

Bracy Appeikumoh is a scholar archivist artist whose work centers reimagining desire and pleasure wholly divested from the diktats of empire and all of its baggage. Her erotic fiction takes place in queer futures embodying queer pre-colonial pasts; her non-fiction ponders how we get here. She is burdened by the urgent need to restore, preserve, and disseminate indigenous ways of being and knowing. Octavia E. Butler, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, June Jordan, Lorraine Hansberry, Maya Angelou, Claudia Jones, Toni Cade Bambara, Zora Neale Hurston, Assata Shakur, Nina Simone, Marion Stokes.

About Vector Festival

Presented by InterAccess, this year's festival digs into the guts, the gunk, and the gears of the mechanical bodies that make up our technologies. The 14th edition of Vector Festival will search for parallels between computer and human bodies, looking at how we overheat and sweat, bleed coolant, and are circuited through our veins. In an era of thinner phones and hidden wires, the physical footprint of our technology is obscured, erasing the reminder for maintenance and care. How does this impact those with insulin pumps at their hips or prosthetic arms that require batteries? Can we push back against the techno-optomist desire to create posthuman bodies by seeking to understand the machines already in our homes?