LUCAS AZÉMAR
LIFE ON EARTH
video, color, sound, 35’, 2019, Switzerland/France
Screening exclusively at the Museum of Interactive Cinema in Milan on March 25, Lucas Azémar groundbreaking Life of Earth introduced Guess Who’s Back, a hacker known for his online hoaxes who has caused the real death of a man. Nobody knows since when the hacker operates, but everyone can meet him through his avatar at the Club des Crocos in the video game Life On Earth. A clash of real and virtual worlds in a universe of pixels, invented from scratch, funny and disturbing.
Lucas Azémar was born in Paris 1991 in Paris. After studying Law, Political Sciences at the Institut Catholique de Paris for one year, he continued his studies at the University of Nanterre, Paris-La Défense (Paris X), and received his B.A. in Performing Arts, specializing in cinema and theater. He subsequently enrolled in cinema program at HEAD (Haute École d'Art et de Design), in Geneva. Among his productions are the documentary Bac à Sacle (with Charlotte Cherici, 2022) and the short La Loi De La Pesanteur (2016).
Watch a trailer below:
RESET PRESENTS: THE POLITICS OF GAMES
MARCH 25 2023/25 MARZO 2023 (MIC, MILAN)
Introduced by/Introdotto da Matteo Bittanti
