Are you watching?
Are you watching?
A sex experiment. A pornography competition. A leaked tape.
Whilst a movie star finds her intimate images deepfaked for global audiences,
a wife discovers some disturbing home videos, and a journalist embarks on a new investigation.
A pacy and political play on watching and being watched in a world where everything’s porn and everyone’s fodder.
Are you watching?
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Summary
'Are You Watching?' is a screaming kaleidoscope of stories, interweaving compulsive and perplexing narrative threads that interrogate the intersections between tech, sex, and misogyny.
i. Two friends at a sleepover tell a story which has chilled them to the
bones: of a wife, video tapes, a husband, drugs.
ii. An actress gets her big break, but soon finds her body no longer belongs
to her.
iii. A journalist chases a story by participating in a groundbreaking sex
experiment.
iv. A mother’s daughter has gone missing. Then she finds her image on a
violent porn site.
v. A young man is about to have sex for the first time with a woman he’s
only ever known through a screen.
vi. A doctor treats a husband’s wife for her apathy in the bedroom.
Rooted in reality but spun into something much stranger, these strands overlap and blend together with increasing complexity as we watch this chorus of characters forge a path through new and unguarded technological and sexual territory.