"Prometheus" Takes Second Life Expressionist Machinima Ever Closer to the Sun

[Marta Lanzius]

In the Second Life machinima "Prometheus", the Greek legend is retold in bold imagery and blood-soaked symbolism, as if the story of the man who defied the gods had become a Dali-esque fever dream. Created by Luca Lisci, an Italian artist who is known in Second Life as Vive Voom, it's a glorious visual feast you should best watch in a darkened room with the lights turned low:

Prometheus - The machinima by Luca Lisci from Service Celeste Prize on Vimeo.

It's one of the best and most ambitious Second Life movies I've seen in quite awhile, and it's also the latest in what can only be called expressionist machinima. Like Lyric Lundquist and ColeMarie Soleil, Vive heavily post-processes and composites SL imagery into a new video form rich with emotional tones.


Potete leggere l'intervista completa a Mister Luca Lisci su New World Notes

[Debbie Trilling]

Great film. Really enjoyed it.

Interestingly, one of my favorite books from the '80's was 'Prometheus Rising' by Robert Anton Wilson

This book particuliarly, but also many of Wilson's work, had a deep effect on my world-outlook. Wilson summerised his body of work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth. My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism about everything."

The ancient Greek Prometheus Myth is a fascinating story in its own right and many of the themes can be seen in this film.

Thanks for posting.

PS: the interview with the creator Luca Lisci on New World Notes is definately worth a read