Life Imitation

Documentary Film, HD1080P, 82min

2017

This film parallels real life with a virtual game. In the game, a female killer wanders the streets of Los Angeles on a dark night. Police sirens wail all around. There are people lying in the streets… possibly dead, possibly asleep. In real life, a woman expresses her suffering and depression over her love life, and the roles she plays in social life using social media chat, revealing the symptoms of a mental disorder. We also see different episodes of young people's life in Shanghai, which showed how they give performances to try to fill their social roles in this big city, how they deal with the ubiquitous screens, new technology, and hypermediated world, and how they communicate with others also how they live in solitude, and how they experience the space-time construction created by our time and us. Virtual space, dream space, daily space, urban space, bodily space, cellphone space, social space...these young people get lost in different spaces, or maybe they exist in each layer of their reality.