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I Have Seen You Scared in the Rain
A deepfake face returns a familiar cinematic memory as an unstable meeting between actor, character, age, and artificial identity.
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?