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“Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator:

A Second Life Odyssey” by Douglas Gayeton

a full length documentary film about life in virtual worlds for HBO.


Watch episodes here, read HBO’s exclusive interview or check out wikipedia.


 
“This is a digital life well examined. A-” TIME MAGAZINE’s TV pick of the week “A Marco Polo Story for Our Times” Reuters “Whimsical, thought-provoking and visually arresting” Frazier Moore in USA TODAY "Douglas more or less invented a new technique to shoot machinima, waded through 100 hours of footage, and wound up with a movie that challenges the very definition of "documentary". Wagner James Au in NEW WORLD NOTES “Alva lands in the virtual world of Second Life and narrates the documentary like a travel writer exploring a new country - imagine Alain de Botton transplanted into a virtual world and asked to explain things.” Chris Stevens, in THE DAILY TELEGRAPH “Douglas and Molotov were able to produce an immersive experience that gives viewers a true understanding of what one experiences in a virtual world. Tamara Krinsky in Documentary Magazine “The first glimpse of the future of moviemaking.” Barry Yourgrau in THE HUFFINGTON POST “Possibly the best example of machinima I’ve seen.” Mitch Wagner in INFORMATION WEEK “Gayeton’s experiment may eventually become a cult-classic like ‘Bladerunner’ or ‘Logan’s Run’” Hrag Vartanian http://www.gmail.com/http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/05/14/cinemax-documentary-asks-why-second-life/http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/2008-05-10-1451973097_x.htmhttp://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/05/making-molotov.htmlhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2007/04/14/nosplit/dldoc14.xmlhttp://www.documentary.org/content/virtual-documentary-making-molotov-alvahttp://www.documentary.org/content/virtual-documentary-making-molotov-alvahttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/barry-yourgrau/second-life-gets-its-virt_b_101966.htmlhttp://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/04/machinima_makin.htmlhttp://hragvartanian.com/2007/04/06/second-life-mates-with-youtube/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1623143_1738972_1738966,00.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4shapeimage_1_link_5shapeimage_1_link_6shapeimage_1_link_7shapeimage_1_link_8shapeimage_1_link_9