Beneficial Shock!, Issue 9 – Fun and Games

Beneficial Shock! is a new bi-annual magazine for film lovers and design enthusiasts, with accompanying screen based motion features that will champion progressive thinking from contemporary illustrators, graphic designers and photographers. Rather than your standard film magazine full of reviews, celebrity news and press images, Beneficial Shock! aims to use illustration, visual documentation and design in humorous and irreverent ways to expressively interpret film related content.

In short, film is just the beginning.

In each thematic issue we will explore a chosen topic, looking at its relationship to film in surprising and often unconventional ways.

In this issue:

A wise Argonaut once said that “the gods want their entertainment” and to creatively paraphrase the Bard: “All the World’s a Game and we are merely players”.

In keeping with what you’ve come to expect from Beneficial Shock! – little of what is covered in this new issue conforms to the bog-standard notions of ‘Fun’ or ‘Games’ (after all what fun would that be?!) so prepare yourselves for a thrill-ride of epic proportions as we delve deep into all the ways that cinema – and those that make it – has amused itself at our (joyful) expense.