Synthetic Sincerity (CTBA)

'A warm, funny and generous work. A true original from one of Britain’s most inquisitive and adventurous directors'

The Synthetic Sincerity Lab based at the University of Southern England are trying to create authentic AI characters as part of a new research project. The head of the lab, Professor Song, licences the films of Marc Isaacs to better understand what his AI characters are lacking and, in turn, agrees the Filmmaker can document their working process.

Blending documentary with fiction, Synthetic Sincerity uses humor and innovative narrative techniques to form a reflection on what is happening to the human face in the era of AI and what this might mean for the future of cinema.

'Another compassionate documentary portrait by Marc Isaacs, one of the most innovative British documentary filmmakers of the 21st century'

When Images Make the World | Across activism, artificial intelligence, dreams and reenactment, these films explore the unstable relationship between images and truth. Rather than treating the camera as a neutral recorder, they reveal it as a machine that shapes memory, identity, politics and belief. The lens does not merely capture what we see—it teaches us how to see.