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Life on Life

“Life on Life” is a 13-minute docu-narrative produced inside the virtual reality platform SecondLife, composed of vignettes narrating one avatar’s path through her first year in the metaverse. From magical safaris and artificial intelligence lifeforms to hackers and virtual suicide bombers, the real world plays itself out around her in virtual space, and Life passes through with hope and wonder intact. The film explores an intersection of the first and virtual worlds–the drawbacks and the pote...