55: If it looks like a duck

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s probably James Bond... Dive into the surreal with Art Dad Doesn't Like, as we dissect Rachel MacLean's deepfake film, 'Duck.' Submerging us in a green-tinted world drenched in mystery and deception, ‘Duck’ presents a reality where subterfuge and suspicion undermine one’s every belief.

MacLean resurrects cinematic icons Sean Connery and Marilyn Monroe, employing deepfake technology as a digital necromancer to summon spectres of the past. But this piece doesn't just look to the past, mimicking the trappings of '60s cinema; it examines the crumbling facades of truth and identity in our digital era.

While 'Duck' prompts us to consider deepfake technology’s societal ripples, it implicitly raises the moral quandaries of repurposing the likenesses of the departed. And in relaying a less existentially threatening anecdote, Dad teaches us that if something looks like a swan, it's probably not a swan… View excerpts from ‘Duck’ here!

Music from Uppbeat.