Second Me by Anna Thommen (ft. Eifachfilm Vacirca)
November 13, 2008 12:00 pmThere are not many documentaries on Second Life out there that apply the necessary ‘nuances’, that show the Opportunities as well as the Dangers that lie within this virtual world. Not many documentaries that do not brutally cut out & off the interviewed resident’s words, as to only serve the point their creator wants to get across. As it comes to getting ‘the whole deal’ across, the short film ‘Second Me’ by Anna Thommen nailed it. It comes as no surprise it won the Audience Award at the Wintherthur short film festival, and also a shared Swiss Price. *applauds*
For this, Miss Anna Thommen just needed to follow one avatar and it’s human - or is it the other way around? - living his Second Life, telling about his ‘Second Me’ and commenting on behaviour, looks and backgrounds of fellow avatars. The avatar sharing the high points and virtual lows of his adventures with us is Eifachfilm Vacirca, who’ve I’ve met a few times at my ‘grow up’ sim, the Paradise Lost. (And I recognize quite a few of my ‘homies’, which is uberly kewl.)
Subtitles available by pressing the CC button. License: CC-attribution-noncommercial-sharealike |
See ‘Second Me’ in full quality but without subs here.
More info at eifachfilm.ch and d-oo-b.cc.
For those with dirty minds - *does not look into a particular direction* but a certain person, you know who you are, made me insert this disclaimer - at 7 minutes 57 seconds, that’s his FOOT he’s moving. Really. But this _is_ a ‘Euro’ documentary, so the director did not cut out or ‘bleep’ the protagonist using the word ’sperm’. For the NSFW puritans out there, just shut up and swallow. Tyvm and kthxbye.
Tags: anna thommen, avatar, documentary, eifachfilm vacirca, machinima, paradise lost, second life, second me, video
7 Responses to “Second Me by Anna Thommen (ft. Eifachfilm Vacirca)”
What a documentary! This is the 4th of SL that I’ve seen, and you’re right that this isn’t one only focussing on the “downside” SL “may” have.
It’s about the most representative one so far.
xlent…has a sorta wim wenders thing going on–needs angels! Documentaries always seem better in europe.
Yes europe is fun hehe
d-=.^-b
Great movie. And that guy is brave as hell.
Very interesting. … I don’t know in which measure the words of our friend are spontaneous? prepared ?
I have attempted several times an inverse experience :
asking avavtars met in the games, how they considered their “creator”.
The avatar’s word is different of the human’s word. Often one replies me exactly “creator”, a little as God.
But sometimes also “father”, and a lot more rarely “me”.
Even if human wants to be one with his avatar, the avatar becomes emancipated of this relation.
She refers to Her as ‘My Human’ most of the time… *nods*
[…] stated a while ago that all good virtual worlds documentaries originate from the European area, I believe the same goes for films about ‘virtual worlds’ and MMORPGs. I’m a […]
Care to comment?