Immortality

Immortality is Sam Barlow's most ambitious and artistically daring interactive film — a game that uses the medium to explore cinema, identity, obsession, and something far darker through three films made across three different decades by the fictional actress Marissa Marcel, who vanished before each of her films was released. Players sift through footage by matching visual elements and cutting between shots, gradually uncovering the interconnected mysteries of Marissa's life, the people around her, and a presence that exists between the frames. The innovation of Immortality lies in how it uses editing — the fundamental language of cinema — as both its interface mechanic and its thematic subject. The revelations about what is actually happening across these three films are among the most disturbing and philosophically rich in any interactive story. A full commitment to cinema as a video game form, executed with extraordinary intelligence. One of the most unique games ever made.