31 October7 November
2025
31 October
2025.09.19
The 36th Horror and Fantasy Film Festival presents, as part of its section Animedon – San Sebastian Second Anime Fair, the exhibition Cinegēmu: Fantasy and horror in Japanese videogames.
The exhibition is organised by Donostia Kultura and the Japan Foundation of Madrid, in partnership with DiGRAES, curated by Marçal Mora, Víctor Navarro and Alejandro Rodríguez, and designed by V15, and will be open between September 19 and November 7.
From the very outset, gēmu or Japanese videogames, have been very closely linked to cinema: as early as 1986, an anime film of Super Mario Bros. was seen in cinemas; Famicom featured a Konami videogame adaptation of the American film The Goonies, and Fuji TV screened an adaptation of the Nintendo game Nazo no Murasame Jō. The two media have been interlinked ever since in a dynamic of constant exchange, not only with each other but also with other Japanese media and concepts of popular culture in the country.
This exhibition takes us on a journey through these crossover points, focusing on what is known as the media mix, experiments in interactive cinema, popular icons, and above all the presence of fantasy and horror elements as two cultural and creative nodes in Japanese videogames.
The exhibition will be accompanied in October by the screening of two films at the Okendo events hall, to be presented by the journalist and Animedon coordinator Harri X. Fernández:
October 13 (18:30)
Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale (2017). Tomohiko Ito. Japan
October 14 (18:30)
Overlord, el reino sagrado (2024). Naoyuki Ito. Japan
Create your arcade machine
Medialab (Tabakalera)
October 28-29
In parallel with this exhibition, Tabakalera Medialab has organised the workshop Create your arcade machine. Anime and videogame fans will have the chance to explore the process of programming, building and designing the machines that populated amusement arcades.
The workshop will take place on Medialab's premises on 28 and 29 October, between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. This workshop is intended for over 16s, with a maximum capacity of 12 people, and will cost €50. Registration on the Tabakalera website: www.tabakalera.eus/en/create-your-arcade-machine
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