Bindle Film House
Bindle Film House is the media library and film screening department of Bindle Institute
Tribunal
The Bindle Institute sometimes hosts a film event we call Tribunal. It seems to get people excited to watch a movie rather than mind-numbed and frustrated at scrolling through a list of infinite streaming options.
This is most fun with a large collection of physical media because it feels nice to hold a movie in your hands and read about it to the group instead of staring at phones. But it can work with online videos written down on slips of paper.
How we run Tribunal
1. gather at least 3 friends.
2. blast the Space Jam theme to build hype.
3. each person picks three VHS (or DVDs if you swing that way) and lays them on the collective game surface. The game is ready to begin.
The number of films per person can be negotiated up or down before gameplay starts depending on the number of participants or how involved of a game you want to play. It's best for the 'game surface' to be a large table, floor works though.
4. friends take turns going around the circle removing 1 tape from play at a time. You can use the Tribunal Randomizer tool below if you want.
5. the last tape left is the one you all watch together.
Tribunal Randomizer!
Set the number of players, the number of films they each pick and it will randomly select who picks when. It goes through everyone in the list before circling back to all players. This prevents clumping: everyone gets to pick at the beginning, middle and end. Total films: this player now removes a tape from play:
this randomizer was written with our in-house ai jai
some Bindle Film House predecessors:
- bean screen- ECC film series
- F Cinema