HBO to air Second Life documentary

HBO is distributing a documentary titled Molotov’s Dispatches in Search of the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey, a seven-part documentary about the digital phenomenon, Second Life. The narrative is organized around the travels of Molotov Alva and his encounters with all the various walks of life currently represented in SL.

From the press release:

“In January 2007, a man named Molotov Alva, disappeared from his California home. Recently, a series of video dispatches by a Traveler of the same name have appeared within a popular online world called Second Life.

In these dispatches Molotov Alva encounters everything from Furries to Cyberpunks to Neo-Luddites to Sex Slaves to the King of the Hobos, Orhalla Zander, who becomes Molotov’s guide as he searches for the creator of their brave new world.”

Since the whole shebang clocks in at 35 minutes, HBO is trying to get the documentary considered for an Academy Award for best animated short subject. The first episode is up on the Submarine Channel and HBO will air it in 2008.

It definitely sounds as if it’s worth checking out, regardless of your feelings for the infamous app. It will certainly be educational.

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