Machinima Week on Orange Island: Day 3

Time flies… It’s already Day 3 of our Machinima Week. For those of you who couldn’t make yesterday’s Metaverse Explorers field trip to the awesome Japanese sim S.I.C., we’ve put up some photos on our Metaverse Explorers @ S.I.C flickr set

We also have great news: CodeBastard Redgrave’s machinima class originally scheduled on Tuesday has been re-scheduled on Thursday at 9.30 am.

Today’s schedule:

Wednesday April 16th
10.30 am SLT – 12.00 pm SLT : Machinima Class: Pre-production / hosted by Allen Kerensky & Moebius Overdrive
12.00 pm SLT – 1.30 pm SLT : Machinima as an Artform / speakers: Evo Szuyuan (Odyssey, Netherlands), Berardo Carboni (Volavola, Italy), Stella Costello and Twisted Surfaces
1.30 pm SLT – 2.00 pm SLT : Machinima Screenings

Allen Kerensky & Moebius Overdrive

Allen Kerensky and Moebius Overdrive are two machinimists working in collaboration since October 2005. Their productions have been awarded prizes in many competitions such as the Annual Ed Wood Film Festival and Alt-Zoom’s Take5 Festival. Their movie START (2006) was critically acclaimed as steampunk compared to Isaac Asimov at machinima.com.
Evo Szuyuan (aka Brigit Lichtenegger in RL)

Evo is a new media artist, programmer, researcher, curator and machinimatographer. With a main interest for VirtualReality and Immersive and Networked Environments she contributed to numerous international collaborative Art and Research projects that have been awarded and presented at festivals, galleries and musea all over the world, including Ars Electronica, DEAF and the Swiss National Museum.

In 2006 she started exploring the potential of the Second Life platform as the avatar Evo Szuyuan. There she organizes Dorkbot Second Life and got involved in creating movies for music groups, performance and installation artists. These movies have been screened in Second Life and at the European Machinima Festival, where Brigit received nominations in several award categories. She has recently started to work on the feature length movie – “Volavola -Fly me” – which will be shot entirely in Second Life.

Berardo Carboni (aka finally Outlander in SL)

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”.

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.

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