Screenings
Online edition of the 66th KFF
Synthetic Sincerity
United Kingdom2025documentary72'Documentary competition
How to make a face generated by artificial intelligence to be more human? For example, you can train AI on the characters of documentary films. The director agreed that his work be used as part of an academic project. Real faces and emotions were transformed into a data stream, and the shooting of the entire process gave rise to many ethical and political questions. The result was a witty hybrid of documentary and fiction exposing the blurring of boundaries in the AI era. In this film, it has the face of Ilinca Manolache, a Romanian actress known from Radu Jude’s film ‘Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World’.
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- Marc IsaacsQ&A guest
Documentary film director and producer. Since 2001, he has directed more than 10 creative documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4. His films have won Grierson, Royal Television Society and BAFTA awards, as well as numerous prizes at international festivals. In 2006, he had a retrospective at the États généraux du film documentaire de Lussas and his work has been included in numerous documentary books and academic studies. In 2008, Marc Isaacs received an honorary doctorate from the University of East London for his documentary work.
- cinematography
- Marc Isaacs
- script
- Adam Ganz, Marc Isaacs
- music
- Yahli Lev
- editing
- Marc Isaacs
- production
- Marc Isaacs (Sincerity Films)
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