Science on Screen® — Another Body and the Dangers of Deepfake Technology

SXSW Special Jury Award-winning documentary Another Body follows American college student Taylor’s search for answers and justice after she discovers that the image of her face has been used without her consent in deepfake pornography. Alongside another student who has also been a deepfake target, the women take the investigation into their own hands, diving headfirst into the underground world of deepfake technology and discovering a growing culture of men terrorizing women—influencers, classmates, and friends.

More than just a cautionary tale about misused technology and the toxicity of the online world, this documentary transforms the deepfake technology weaponized against Taylor into a tool that allows her to tell her story and reclaim her identity.

The film screens as part of Cornell Cinema's Science on Screen® series and is presented in partnership with the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity. Before the film, Gili Vidan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at the Cornell Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, will discuss deep fake technology and its consequences, drawing upon her research on how trust is established in digital spaces and how notions of authenticity, knowability, and good governance are implicated in the making of new digital objects.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A between the film’s co-director Reuben Hamlyn and Austin Bunn, Associate Professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts and Director of the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity.

Free admission and free popcorn provided! Cosponsored by the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity, the Science & Technology Studies Program, and the Department of Performing & Media Arts

Film website: anotherbodyfilm.com

An initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.