In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, Jules, do all they can to hold on to their joy, despite the instability surfacing in their world.
Direction
Phang crafts a future that feels already here.
Acting
Kim's performance is two women in one aching body.
Cinematography
Glass towers and shadowed apartments—wealth as alienation.
Director
Jennifer Phang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made on a micro-budget with Sundance Institute support, this premiered the same year Ex Machina dominated—both explore female-bodied AI, but Phang centers economic coercion over male creator anxiety.
The 'advantageous' procedure isn't framed as choice but as coerced necessity—Gwen's 'consent' is economic duress dressed in corporate wellness language, making this quietly radical feminist sf.
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