The British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the Film Society of Lincoln Center will cohost a free Master Class with video game director Sam Barlow, with a focus on Barlow’s video game Her Story. In “Reinventing the Police Procedural: How Her Story Allowed the Audience to Play Detective in a Post-Serial World,” Barlow will discuss the conception of his BAFTA-award-winning game Her Story and explore how interactivity can unlock the audience’s imagination to create an intimacy that goes beyond what is possible in traditional broadcast media.

About Her Story
A work of crime fiction with nonlinear storytelling, the video game Her Story grants players access to a police database of archived video footage that covers seven interviews from 1994 in which a British woman is interviewed by detectives about her missing husband. Players take on the role of a person sitting before a police computer terminal, their own computer or device playing the part of the fictional computer. The game is available on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.