Another Body
Sophie COMPTON, Reuben HAMLYN
- USA, UK
- 2023
- 80min
- 18 +
- DCP
- color
Asian premiere
Synopsis
Another Body follows a college student’s search for justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online.
Review
Taylor loves mathematics and rules that cannot lie. Someday, Taylor finds out that she was a deepfake porn victim. Deepfake is a compound word for AI technology, deep learning, and fake, and it means a video or image that uses AI technology to manipulate facial appearance. In Another Body, Taylor is forced to face the cruel world of fake. The digital porn swaps Taylor’s body with another body and her porn is scattered around the anonymous space. Taylor gets legal consulting but shockingly realizes that deepfake porn is not subject to criminal offense in most cases because it does not inflict the victim’s body directly. Another Body clearly reveals the failure of modern society to cope with technological development. Taylor starts to investigate the digital crime with her classmate Julia, who is also a deepfake porn victim. As Tayler and Julia investigate the crime, they become detectives in a detective story. There is another part applied to the film’s theme of combining two different things. When audiences don’t pay attention, they might miss or believe the tricky twist. The twist may lead to another discussion on deepfake documentaries.Director
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Sophie COMPTON
Sophie Compton is a British director, writer, and activist who tells women’s stories of injustice. She has produced and directed six plays, including Edinburgh Festival Fringe-winning Funeral Flowers.
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Reuben HAMLYN
Reuben Hamlyn is an award-winning filmmaker whose films look through the intimate frame of individual experience to investigate power, injustice, and the impact of technology and media on identity and behavior. His last film Roger tells the story of a worker who attempts to bypass technological barriers.
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