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'OtherLife is a revolutionary new drug invented by Ren Amari (Jessica de Gouw). It expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life can feel like hours or days of exciting adventures. Ren hopes to use this miraculous technology to heal her comatose brother, but there are other more secretive plans afoot, like selling OtherLife technology to governments wishing to solve prison overcrowding by imprisoning criminals in virtual cells: a use that Ren adamantly opposes.'
Source: Sydney Film Festival blurb (http://tix.sff.org.au/html/s_OtherLife.htm). (Sighted: 17/05/2017)
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Ben C. Lucas : Breathing Life into OtherLife
2017
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 25 October 2017; -
OtherLife Review – Virtual Reality Goes Bad in Ambitious Australian Sci-fi Thriller
2017
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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 19 June 2017; 'It is not uncommon for films about drug users to contain closeup shots of pupils dilating. This is hardly surprising given closeups of eyes have long been fashionable in cinema; the famous opening of Luis Buñuel’s 1929 classic Un Chien Andalou comes to mind. And after a hit of the good stuff, eyeballs look fabulous on screen, as films like Requiem for a Dream remind us.' (Introduction)
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OtherLife Review – Virtual Reality Goes Bad in Ambitious Australian Sci-fi Thriller
2017
single work
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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 19 June 2017; 'It is not uncommon for films about drug users to contain closeup shots of pupils dilating. This is hardly surprising given closeups of eyes have long been fashionable in cinema; the famous opening of Luis Buñuel’s 1929 classic Un Chien Andalou comes to mind. And after a hit of the good stuff, eyeballs look fabulous on screen, as films like Requiem for a Dream remind us.' (Introduction) -
Ben C. Lucas : Breathing Life into OtherLife
2017
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— Appears in: FilmInk , 25 October 2017;
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