Four-Eyed Monsters to Screen in Second Life
Four Eyed Monsters, the movie I’ve been blogging about periodically here, is finally getting its screening in the virtual world of Second Life, tomorrow at 5pm SL time (8pm Eastern). The screening will take place at the Sundance Channel’s Second Life »screening room«, as part of Sundance’s entry into SL. (Sundance is a client of the Electric Sheep Company, sponsors of this blog.) The movie is a hugely interesting take on life and love both online and off, and addresses along the way questions of identity and how that’s changing in our increasingly virtual world. Check out the machinima invite that filmmakers Susan Buice and Arin Crumley have made for the film. They’ve really taken to SL since being introduced to it by me and Jerry Paffendorf a while back. Both filmmakers will be at the screening to chat with audience members. This is highly recommended viewing. [Oops: Forgot to mention that the film will simultanously be shown at a handful of other locations around SL, and you can even host your own. See the Sundance Channel’s Second Life page for more details.]
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Having taken in the showing at the Elbow Room, I can definitely say that the event was well attended… and the film was really not what I expected, but interesting to take in just the same.
What I did notice, however, was the number of people who signed up to SL specifically to watch the film and who became frustrated with the limitations of the client due to the short amount of time for familiarization with it prior to the start of the event.
Even so, most people were fairly good natured about the showing, and the general atmosphere created by a gathering of people in-world for this was definitely exciting. I would definitely like to see an event like this happen again.
Mare maxxed out several times throughout the course of the showing… I would be interested to know just how popular the showing was elsewhere.