# I Have Seen You Scared in the Rain

Canonical URL: https://baoyangchen.com/works/rain/
Interactive page: https://baoyangchen.com/#work/rain
Year: 2019
Category: AI Generative Works
Medium: Face-swapping AI video

## Proposition
A deepfake face returns a familiar cinematic memory as an unstable meeting between actor, character, age, and artificial identity.

## Description
I Have Seen You Scared in the Rain uses face-swapping technology to revisit the "Tears in Rain" scene from Blade Runner. An aged Harrison Ford is merged with Roy Batty, bringing human actor and replicant character into the same altered face.

The work is a moving image about memory and substitution. A scene already shaped by mortality, empathy, and artificial life becomes technically unstable.

The face becomes the site of the question. Who is speaking, the actor, the character, the old self, the young image, the human, or the machine?

## Viewer Entry
The viewer recognizes a cinematic memory, then sees it changed. The familiarity of the scene carries the first shock; the altered face carries the second. The work asks the viewer to stay inside the discomfort of recognition, where authenticity and fabrication occupy the same image.

## Apparatus
The work uses AI face-swapping to merge an aged Harrison Ford with Roy Batty's monologue scene. The moving image places deepfake technology inside a cinematic frame already concerned with the boundary between human and artificial life. The installation and training-process documentation can show the work as both video and technical construction.

## Sections
### The Altered Face
The face carries several identities at once. Actor, role, age, and synthetic replacement meet on the same surface.

### Cinematic Memory
Blade Runner is already a cultural memory of artificial life. The deepfake intervention returns that memory as something unstable and newly mediated.

### Deepfake as Medium
The technology is used to disturb recognition rather than to hide its own operation. The viewer sees how easily memory, identity, and performance can be recomposed.

### Ethics of Substitution
The work holds the dual character of deepfake: artistic possibility and ethical unease. It asks how emotion and historical memory change when faces can be technically reassigned.

## Images

## Videos
1. https://player.vimeo.com/video/409753013

## Source Pages
- https://baoyangchen.com/I-Have-Seen-You-Scared-in-the-Rain