Cao Fei is obviously an artist of the i-Generation. She spends a lot of time in Second Life, but also turns it into an art project. And a film. She calls her film i-Mirror a documentary, but in Second Life, of course there is nothing to document. Everything is fake and fiction. Cheerful (self-)deceit. The film is a love story, but then without love. Her avatar China Tracey has an encounter with an interesting young man, who finally turns out to be the cover for a middle-aged man.
Also in this combined programme
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A sweetly jumping girl. But the female film maker doesn’t want to make a sweet film. That’s precisely the problem. -
Somewhere, Late Afternoon…
The makers found a curious scale model of a high rise apartment block by the rubbish in Taipei. They saw something beautiful and now we… -
Whose Utopia
Lamp factory asked a playful artist if she would realise an art project in the company. You’d think a lamp factory would know what was… -
Visitor
CGI, computer generated images, are apparently not limited to major Hollywood films. A small film can also generate a small UFO. A cloud as visitor.
Film details
- Country of production
- China
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 28'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam Digi PAL
