New Media Research Studio

Research Tools & Media Environments | NYU Media Culture & Communication | Spring 2008

i.mirror: Second Life Documentary

I saw this film/machinima at NYUFF last month, I found them on Youtube and I thought you guys might be interested. It was also featured as part of the China Pavilion in the 2007 Venice Biennale

i.Mirror is a documentary in three acts recorded through China Tracy, the Second Life avatar of artist Cao Fei. The video opens with a poetic overture to the world of Second Life, followed by a waltzing, in-game romance between the artist and a man not exactly who he seems. i.Mirror’s conclusion is a montaged roll call of Second Life’s citizens, each peering into the camera—China Tracy—as they might the reflection of their own eyes. As the sequence crescendos, the mood of yearning held throughout the video shifts to triumph and the auras of real people peek through their digital fantasies. (NYUFF catalog description)

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