Dir. Marc Isaac
2026 | 72 mins | UK | English

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• Fri 28 Aug: 5pm
• Sat 29 Aug: 5pm

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‘Warm, funny and generous…a true original from one of Britain’s most inquisitive and adventurous directors. Handled with its director’s customary wit, humanity and lightness of touch’ – Ryan Gilbey, The Guardian

‘Playfully made, intelligent and entertaining’ – Kermode & Mayo’s Take

‘Another compassionate portrait by Marc Isaacs, one of the most innovative British documentary filmmakers of the 21st century’ – Sight & Sound

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 humour 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’ – Dominic Lees, Sight & SoundPart of When Images Make the World

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.

BBFC Rating

Rated PG – mild bad language, upsetting scenes, violence

Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix

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