The 1Up Fever (2013)
Channel: Silvia Dal Dosso
Date: 2021-02-12

This short film was shot in Berlin during the summer 2013 and originally published on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/71559751.

You can find some info about the 1Up Fever here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1_Up_Fever.

Original Synopsis: In the city of Berlin everyone is going crazy for a new smartphone app. Anyone with a smartphone can play a sort of Super Mario Bros arcade game in Augmented Reality and has a chance to win Bitcoins just by playing. One coin corresponds to 0.01 Bitcoins. The citizens’ habits are tainted by the game. Coins are hidden all over the city, you can spot them by scanning the local area with your device, but often they are not easy to grab. People started to leave their jobs in order to collect Coins in the streets. All over the city people are jumping and running around with their smartphones, trying to grab as many virtual coins as they can, while the App developers' identity remains covered.

Movie by: Silvia Dal Dosso, find me at @hawaidolphino 
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.