For instance, clicking on a feline sculpture in Minsky jumps to footage of the cat in Two of Everything an abstract figure painting might lead to a mask or an actor’s face. The gist is to use match cuts - transitional cuts between objects with similar themes or structural compositions - to explore Marcel’s movies and figure out what happened to her. The game presents itself as special software designed to showcase Marcel’s recently unearthed work, allowing fans to analyze her films and behind-the-scenes clips. She made three films: Ambrosio (1968), Minsky (1970), and Two of Everything (1999).
Immortality revolves around Marcel, who, according to the game’s fiction, was plucked out of an audition of thousands by a prominent director in the 1960s. It is equal parts frustrating and fascinating, then, to have spent 22 hours immersed in Immortality and still feel wanting for days, in the time since playing the game, every prop, wig, and gesture lived in my head like it was my job. (Avid technology replaced Moviola machines, from which Immortality draws its scrubbing mechanic.) There was something lovely and mysterious about it - being on the fringes of this enigmatic black box where something went in, and a new, yet familiar, thing came out. I spent the summer before college as a teen intern dubbing tapes in tiny rooms filled with VCRs, watching editors disappear into cocoonlike Avid suites where they spent hours going over raw footage.
It didn’t take long for Immortality to bring me back to my stint working in television. If you want curated lists of our favorite media, check out What to Play and What to Watch. When we award the Polygon Recommends badge, it’s because we believe the recipient is uniquely thought-provoking, entertaining, inventive, or fun - and worth fitting into your schedule. Polygon Recommends is our way of endorsing our favorite games, movies, TV shows, comics, tabletop books, and entertainment experiences.
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