Darkon is an award-winning feature-length documentary film that follows the real-life adventures of the Darkon Wargaming Club in Baltimore, Maryland, a group of fantasy live-action role-playing (LARP) gamers.
Direction
Never mocks its subjects, finds poetry in foam swords.
Production
Transforms parking lots into kingdoms with pure commitment.
Acting
Real people delivering Shakespearean monologues in suburban Maryland.
Director
Luke Meyer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed during peak mid-2000s nerd stigma, pre-Marvel cinematic universe, when LARPing was punchline not pop culture.
The directors spent two years embedded with the group; that trust shows in every unguarded moment of vulnerability.
US
