Your AI therapist starts living your life better than you do. Awkward.
Designed to guide Chalice through the challenges of growing up in a volatile world, BOB confronts more and more of the conflicts in Chalice’s life on her behalf, while Chalice grows increasingly escapist. As Dr. Wong begins to favor the BOB side of his daughter, and as BOB threatens to do the job of living Chalice’s life better than she can, Chalice jealously wonders: what is left for her classic human self to do?
Direction
Cheng's glitchy neural-net aesthetic feels genuinely unstable.
Director
Ian Cheng
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cheng developed this as part of his 'Life After BOB' series exploring AI consciousness—exhibited as both gallery installation and streaming narrative, blurring where 'watching' ends and 'living' begins.
The 48-minute runtime isn't lazy—it's calibrated to match the attention span BOB is actively stealing from Chalice. You're complicit.
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