The 1 Up Fever from Silvia Dal Dosso on Vimeo.
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When did you find out about Bitcoin? I was just back in Berlin and some friend of mine was telling me this story of crazy people who were starting to accept bitcoin as a real currency in their clubs and restaurants. It was April.And you completed this film in June? Brava!Yes. I slept for three months on couches, changing place almost twice per week. I had all my stuff in the car, [to the] point that I was feeling like camping in the city. It was a great sensation to get ready for school and production by washing my teeth beside my car and watching the street landscape around.I even made a curious botanic experiment. I convinced myself that if my small plant of basilico was surviving through all of that squatting, I could survive too. I was bringing that little plant everywhere. And she is actually still alive.Where did you find your bitcoin subjects?Interviews were collected at re:publica, which is a blogger meeting taking place every year in Berlin. The Bitcoin Kietz is actually real and the people you see in the video are meeting every months at Room 77, and they are firmly convinced to represent the future. A stock broker, a game developer, a re:publica organizer, an editor from Der Tagesspiegel, a bitcoin application developer and many other hackers and geeks were interviewed.…some friend of mine was telling me this story of crazy people who were starting to accept bitcoin as a real currency in their clubs and restaurants.
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It could be pretty attractive, playing a real-life video game through your smartphone for real money.My aim was to raise questions: Where is this money coming from? Who are the developers of the game? Why do you think they're giving you money? What are they using your jumping, data-roaming, and geolocation-tracking for? And I think the great interviewees I found on re:publica, c-base, and room 77 were taking the dare and coming out with genius statements.I had many discussions with hackers, game developers and such, during the making of, and we agreed that despite the game still not being possible to make with these smartphones, it's just a matter of time. The junky kids from the old 90s arcades will start to play Mario in augmented reality, jumping on rooftops, exploring the rivers on their gummy boats and risking their life on train tracks. They will do that to earn real money and the virtual money of the future that is already here, with the bitcoin cryptocurrency.So, as an Italian, what do you think about Mario?I think Mario is more like a New Yorker immigrant. Like one of the first Italians who came to New York or something. The most famous Italian migrant worker of all the time; that guy on the train. Very old style italian immigrant. I guess i'm a new style Italian immigrant. Maybe.@danstuckeyThe junky kids from the old 90s arcades will start to play Mario in augmented aeality, jumping on rooftops…risking their life on train tracks. They will do that to earn real money.