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Second Skin
50 million people, we’re told, most of them between 22 and 35, log on to massively multiplayer online computer games (MMOs). Time spent in a realm where you chose your age, gender and body type and are more likely to slay dragons than in your day job is simply a recreational kick for most. But some never want to leave, sleeping at their computers, eating junk food, peeing into bottles. Others get out more, crossing the world for a first personal encounter with the true love they proposed to as avatars. Meanwhile in China ‘goldfarmers’ accumulate points online to sell for real world cash to time-hungry players in the West. Second Skin gets up close and personal with hardcore gamers, recovering addicts, variously game-challenged or game-enhanced couples and one passionate anti-MMO activist. Instigated after the filmmaker saw that a close friend’s game obsession might cost him his job, Second Skin constitutes an excellent, unjudgemental outsider’s guide, richly infused with insider credibility. [source: World Cinema Showcase 2009]
Starring Andy Belford, Chris Mitchell, Matt Ellsworth, Anthony Cronin, Karalee Belford, Rebecca Cronin, Daniel Bustard, Liz Woolley, Heather Cowan, Kevin Keel
Directed by Juan Carlos Piñeiro Escoriaza
Written by Victor Piñeiro Escoriaza
Festivals & Awards SXSW 2008
Documentary | 1hr 34mins | Origin: USA
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