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.

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 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.

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.