The Virtual Llama
With a world population exploding, a new option to upload your mind to a forever home cuts two sisters in half.
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Over covid lockdowns I missed my little sister Emily. We would video chat, but this virtual connection felt incomplete. The Virtual Llama came from a question: what if this way of relating to people became permanent, (say to tackle global crises)? I sent my sister Emily a toy Llama during lockdown (the same that appears in the film), and this became a symbol in the film for both sibling love, and what Francis becomes: a static, lifeless version of herself. A virtual llama. During lockdown I read John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body” and regularly went trail running. This book and the beauty of nature, painted for me an Edenic picture, in which the God of the Bible intends human life to be embodied, which strongly contrasts with virtual reality. To match this vision, during my runs I searched for and found Edenic locations for the film. Tom Cozens (Director)

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