Dorkbot Session focus on: Fly Me / Volavola – The Movie

On Friday 21st of March, during the Dorkbot Event, join us for a presentation of the movie Fly Me/Volavola. The release of this movie will certainly be a major event in and around Second Life. Berardo Carboni will discuss about the main features of a movie shot in Second Life.

Volavola is about human beings, emotions becoming inevitably dull, the want not to surrender to habit always striving for more, and that love in need to be kept alive and preserved from its natural decay. There are two films in Volavola, both of them with the same screenplay. However, the first film will be shot in 3-D computer graphics, also exploring the virtual worlds of Second Life. The plot, as it unravels, specifically aims to disorient the viewer when it becomes increasingly difficult to understand what is actually real and what is not. Real avatars and real people, interpreting themselves, plus fictional characters, both computer generated and in flesh and blood, are all playing different roles throughout the entire picture.

Finally, Volavola also deals in a sociological way, sometimes even surreal, with themes such as hacker ethics or the values shared in a virtual society, topics which are too often left out by science-fiction in general. The main message is to defend those values, as they play an important part in our cultural heritage by helping us to build a better place to live for everyone. The entire film will be set in Rome as the actual city and as a virtual one where it is now possible to meet characters coming from different virtual universes. The two films will be mirroring each-other. Although the pictures will be distributed through different medias.

Berardo Carboni (1975) has taken a degree in law, he is both a screenwriter and director, and has made several shorts and documentary films that have been chosen for national and international festivals. He has worked with Lara Favaretto to the making of videos for the art circuit; they have been awarded prizes inside important environments (Furla Prize, Venice, 2001; P.S. 1 studio program, Muma, New York, 2002). Together with Lara Favaretto he also worked in 2003 at his first full-length film, Buco nell’acqua, a TV-movie with Sandra Milo, produced by Mediatrade.

Berardo Carboni who previously shot “Shooting Silvio”, wrote the script in collaboration whith the writer, Mario Gerosa author of the book “Virtual Words and Second Life”, currently on its third reprint, chief-editor of “AD, architectural digest Italia-” magazine and professor of cultural planning of the territory and communication at the “Politecnico di Milano”.

March 19, 2008 at 10:06 am | Uncategorized | 1 comment

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