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Another body
2024

Cornell Cinema Ithaca, NY

with

Gili Vidan

Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at the Cornell Bowers College of Computing and Information Science

and

Austin Bunn

Associate Professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts and the Director of the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity at Cornell University

and

Reuben Hamlyn

Co-Director of Another Body

Another Body— The dangers of deepfake technology

Before the film, Gili Vidan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Science at the Cornell Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, discusses 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 is 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.

Cornell Cinema Ithaca, NY

Film Synopsis

This documentary follows a college student's search for justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online.

    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.

    Photo credit: Utopia Films

    About the Speaker

    Gili Vidan is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Science at the Cornell Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. She is a historian of information technology and Science and Technology Studies (STS) researcher. Her work examines how trust is established both in digital technologies and through digital mediation and how notions of authenticity, knowability, and good governance are implicated in the making of new digital objects. Her book project, “Technologies of Trust,” traces technical attempts to solve the problems of trust and authentication in late 20th- and early 21st-century US.

    Austin Bunn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts and the Director of the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity. As a filmmaker, he co-wrote the script for Kill Your Darlings (Sony Pictures Classics), starring Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival and won the International Days Prize at the Venice Film Festival. He has written feature screenplays and television pilots for Fox 2000, Lionsgate, Participant Media, Tomorrow Studios and served as a mentor at the Screenwriters' Colony (Nantucket) and Outfest Screenwriting Lab. His award-winning short films, including Lavender Hill, In the Hollow, Ascent, and Ghosts, have screened nationally and internationally at Frameline (SF), OutFest (LA), InsideOut (Toronto), Brooklyn Film Festival (NY), Provincetown International Film Festival (MA), Sidewalk Film Festival (AL), Milwaukee Film Festival (WI), Skabmagovat Indigenous Film Fest (Finland), MEZIPATRA (Czechoslovakia), USN Expo (Italy), and elsewhere. He is also the author of the short story collection The Brink, published by Harper Perennial and selected as a Lamdba Lit finalist and Electric Literature "Best Short Story Collection of 2015." Prior to Cornell, Bunn worked for nearly a decade as a journalist, and his fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Zoetrope, The Pushcart Prize, Best American Science and Nature Writing, and elsewhere. His monologue, "Basement Story," won the Missouri Review Audio Essay Prize and has been broadcast on WBEZ, Third Coast, Australian Radio, and Michigan Public Radio. In 2017, he also won the Carpenter Memorial Advising Award for his work helping students connect with professionals in film, television, theatre and media.