IRL (In Real Life) (2026)

Every day, two friends—one employed as a domestic worker and the other as a beauty stylist—launch into Battlegrounds Mobile India, trading their offline routines for fleeting hours of digital escape. Wearing customizable avatars, they navigate a hidden layer of anonymity, vulnerability, and alternate identities, transforming a fast-paced multiplayer shooter into a shared sanctuary where loyalty and boundary-pushing carry as much weight as raw adrenaline. This hybrid docu-fiction project investigates how mobile gamers mentally reconstruct their physical presence and design intricate online facades, mapping out a rich terrain of unspoken yearning, curated self-expression, and the theatrical nature of playing another life.