The documentary, following a production of “Hamlet” within “Grand Theft Auto V,” is a high mark for the machinima genre of in-game filmmaking.

Grand Theft Hamlet,” which debuts on Mubi Friday, is a documentary about how a group of friends brought "Hamlet" to life in Grand Theft Auto.

Grand Theft Hamlet directors Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls talk about figuring out how to deal with the chaos of the game and stage the scenes of Hamlet.

Hamlet and the video game Grand Theft Auto might not sound like natural bedfellows, but as a newly released documentary discovers, the medium offers huge possibilities in terms of staging and access to a whole new audience,

Co-directors Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls talk about the surprising depth of connection forged between a ragtag group of gamers in the lawless sandbox of ‘Grand Theft Auto’, and scouting new virtual stages in ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ To grief, perchance to meme. It starts, as most good ideas do, with a joke.

Grand Theft Hamlet dives headfirst into a topic that is extremely close to my heart: the impact of online gaming during the pandemic. Like many others, I spent months with gaming as my only escape from the daily drudgery and loneliness of the pandemic.