Name/Artist Nick: Penumbra Carter/Beth Holmes Personal URL (optional): Country: UK Work title/duration: Year/country when/where it was made: Viral Open Carry Out / 1 min.48 sec/2020/UK/Made and filmed in the virtual world of Second Life Short description (1 sentence): My virtual recreation-reaction to someone who actually walked into a sandwich shop, during a pandemic, wearing a rocket launcher. Explication (no more than 600 words): I recreated, in the virtual world of Second Life, the actual act of someone walking into a sandwich shop, during a pandemic with a rocket launcher on his back, because he could, because of the Open Carry laws, state by state. This, to me, was a shocking disregard of fellow human beings who are all struggling to navigate life during a pandemic. People are asked to wear a mask when in a shop or in close proximity of others, especially in public spaces, this person felt his right to not wear a mask were being infringed on. So he went in maskless, wearing a rocket launcher. The title "Viral Open Carry Out" is a play on words in that; there are open carry laws for deadly weapons in the USA, this person used the open carry laws during a virus which in itself is very deadly, the image did go viral and it was a take-out sandwich shop. I could not imagine how the other people within the sandwich shop and the people who had to serve him felt when he walked in and went directly to the front of the line while wearing a rocket launcher. CV (optional): Links to your works or any promo that you would like to share (optional): https://vimeo.com/user3132712 How you know about the festival: A friend of mine told me.

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Name/Artist Nick: Penumbra Carter/Beth Holmes Personal URL (optional): Country: UK Work title/duration: Year/country when/where it was made: The Night-Mermaid/ 6 min.45 sec/2020/UK/Made and filmed in the virtual world of Second Life Short description (1 sentence): A Mermaid travels from freely moving around her surroundings to increased dangerous interactions that lead to isolation. Explication (no more than 600 words): I became an avatar mermaid in the virtual world of Second Life to show a progression of moving through the virtual seas; freely encountering animals of the sea to humans that eventually lead to being isolated from everything. I put a breathing apparatus on the mermaid, as well as a ball and stick molecular crown on her head to illustrate the viral nature of the world. She is a mermaid who exists within the pandemic and needs to only breath her air. Danger increases as the interactions increase with the non-sea life, humans. CV (optional): Links to your works or any promo that you would like to share (optional): https://vimeo.com/user3132712 How you know about the festival: A friend of mine told me.

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Name/Artist Nick: Carter/Beth Holmes Personal URL (optional): Country: UK Work title/duration: Year/country when/where it was made: WE ARE HERD NOW / 5 min.36 sec/2020/UK/Made and filmed in the virtual world of Second Life Short description (1 sentence): The Mermaid is shown here to be the harbinger of the perilous act of using herd immunity on the unsuspecting public to combat the virus. Explication (no more than 600 words): I became an avatar mermaid in the virtual world of Second Life, the kind of mermaid that shows up to illustrate a movement towards a perilous act. She represents the harbinger of the herd immunity that is being forced on the public to combat the covid virus. She wears her own breathing appratus as well as a molecular ball and stick crown, both symbolic of the effects and nature of the covid virus. CV (optional): Links to your works or any promo that you would like to share (optional): https://vimeo.com/user3132712 How you know about the festival: A friend of mine told me.

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