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I Saw You Crying in the Rain

2019 / AI + Art Works / AI Generated Video (Deepfake Faceswap)

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

I Saw You Crying 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?

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Images

I Saw You Crying in the Rain image 1
A sequence of generated frames makes the face-swap visible as a moving-image construction.
I Saw You Crying in the Rain image 2
The altered face holds actor, character, age, and synthetic replacement in the same image.
I Saw You Crying in the Rain image 3
The video and training-process material appear together in a darkened exhibition setting.
I Saw You Crying in the Rain image 4
Source frames, generated faces, and intermediate outputs document the deepfake process behind the work.
I Saw You Crying in the Rain image 5
A bright installation view shows the suspended projection and supporting monitors as a public apparatus.

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