"Second Bodies" is an award-winning semi-autobiographical machinima documentary on avatar identity, female self-image, mental illness, disability, and unrequited love filmed inside Second Life. (There is a small glitch—a missing photo—in the middle of the film).
Awards and screenings:
Best Documentary, San Francisco New Media Film Festival, 2010.
Gordon F. Keeble Award, Ryerson University, 2009.
Vector: Game + Art Convergence Festival and Symposium, 2013.
San Francisco Indie Film Festival, 2011.
Female Eye Film Festival, 2011.
Please see: Danilovic, S. (2013). Virtual lens of exposure: Aesthetics, theory, and ethics of documentary filmmaking in Second Life. In Understanding machinima: Essays on filmmaking in virtual worlds, Jenna P-S. Ng, (Ed.) London: Bloomsbury
bloomsbury.com/us/understanding-machinima-9781441140524/
understandingmachinima.com/chapter9/index.html
