Cinema Arts at the Exploratorium in January 2009
From a Documentary Shot Entirely Inside Second Life (January 24) to
Utopia: A Living Documentary (January 30)

Filmmakers Douglas Gayeton and Sam Green in Person

The January Exploratorium Cinema Arts Program ranges from a Douglas Gayeton’s documentary shot entirely inside Second Life (and screened in Second Life) as it screens at the Exploratorium on January 24, to Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green’s Utopia: A Living Documentary, a work-in-progress screening on the evening of January 30. Details, screening times and admission are noted below for each film:

Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey
With Filmmaker Douglas Gayeton in Person
A Mixed-Reality Video Screening Event at the Exploratorium and on Exploratorium Island in Second Life
Saturday, January 24, 2009, 2pm
Exploratorium’s McBean Theater and at the Exploratorium Amphitheater in Second Life. Included in the price of admission to the Exploratorium.

Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey (2008, 52 min.), by Douglas Gayeton, is a documentary shot entirely inside the virtual world of Second Life (www.secondlife.com). The film follows Molotov’s adventures as he wends his way through virtual landscapes encountering everything from furries to cyberpunks to new Luddites to the King of the Hobos, Orhalla Zander, who becomes Molotov’s guide on his search for the creator of this brave new world.

Other digital short videos to be included.

To teleport to the Exploratorium amphitheater in Second Life, please
visit http://slurl.com/secondlife/Exploratorium/73/173/30.

For more information about the Exploratorium in Second Life, go to http://www.exploratorium.edu/worlds/secondlife/.

Utopia: A Living Documentary
With Academy Award Nominated Filmmaker Sam Green in Person
Friday, January 30 2009, 7:30pm
Exploratorium’s McBean Theater

Sam Green, director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Weather Underground, shares a multimedia ‘rough-cut’ of his new film The Universal Language. Through seemingly unrelated stories—including a history of Esperanto, a portrait of an exiled American radical, and a meditation on the world’s largest shopping mall—the film explores the battered state of the utopian impulse at the dawn of the 21st century. San Francisco musician Dave Cerf provides a live electronic score.

Tickets are $7 for Adults and $5 for Youth. Exploratorium Members are free. To reserve a ticket online, call (415) 561-0308 between 10am and 5pm, Monday–Friday.