Unreal Estate (The Royal Academy is Yours)
Unreal Estate (The Royal Academy is Yours)
| 18 April 2015 (USA)
Unreal Estate (The Royal Academy is Yours) Trailers

Unreal Estate (The Royal Academy is Yours) uses video game software to imagine a future in which the Royal Academy of Arts in London has been sold to a Chinese billionaire as a luxury private mansion. A first-person perspective tour through their new abode is accompanied by a voiceover – translated from the high-society Tatler magazine into Mandarin – about how to hire and fire an 'army of household staff'. Drawing from the language of high-definition property marketing videos, the project presents a critical look at the capital's current housing crisis. The Royal Academy is itself on a rental contract from the government, and this fact shows the precarious status of even the nation's oldest and most revered art establishment. This is an uncannily familiar virtual world where a major cultural institution has been appropriated into commercial real estate. The work forms Chapter 9 of Lawrence Lek’s Bonus Levels project, a series of utopian/dystopian virtual worlds based on real places.

Reviews
Develiker terrible... so disappointed.
Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.
Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Similar Movies to Unreal Estate (The Royal Academy is Yours)