Nework_Performance picks up on SecondWatch’s experience of watching the first-ever feature film shown in Second Life.
This week we were invited to attend the premiere of Strange Culture, an independent film by Lynn Hershman. The film was shown at the Sundance Film Festival last week and has the distinction of being the first-ever feature film shown in Second Life.
… Watching a movie in Second Life was totally weird. When you get to the movie theater, you hit the play movie control on your SL window. We’re all watching the same film, but a different times! That seems like the most significant difference from a traditional cinema.
Comments
@ 03:37
Maybe it is ‘totally weird’, but the analogy isn’t making it clear to me how this would be different from, say, watching it on Google Video. Or renting the DVD, for that matter.
@ 04:42
Let’s see… First of all, watching it on Google Video or renting the DVD, you are not watching it in a social context (like in a room full of people). Secondly, you are watching it in a social context, but at your own pace. The experience is shared spacially, but not temporally.
One could say it is somewhere between watching it in a theatre and watching it via Google Video.
@ 10:40
“Totally weird” still seems a bit strong. Seems as though they’re lookng for novelty in the mundane. Which is fine, it’s after all a celebrated pastime of buddists and taoists and lovers of life the world over — but I think it’s better to admit that’s what’s going on.