The French Democracy is a political machinima by and about the “disaffected youth” who burned cars in the Paris suburbs in November, 2005, blogged by Cory at boingboing, who said:

The French Democracy is a political film about France’s riots, made in machinima (a filmmaking technique that uses video-games as animation engines) with the new video game The Movies – a game whose objective is to make machinima films.

The French Democracy is a little rough around the edges, unashamedly political and one-sided, and could use some work on the pacing, but it’s also a stirring piece of political filmmaking, created using a $50 piece of software intended to enable its users to become one-person animation auteurs.

Most machnima is silly, or porny, or violent — but this is real political stuff, the kind of thing the First Amendment was invented for. It’s a real milestone in machinima history.

If you know of any other examples of machinima agitprop, please post a link in a comment to this post.

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