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IDFA 2022

Alone Together

Dustin Harvey
Canada, United Kingdom
2022
10 min
International Premiere
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Widespread loneliness has become the scourge of the modern age. Could increasingly realistic artificial intelligence offer a solution? This interactive app introduces us to Kya, an employee at the fictional Alone Together Agency, which hires out replacement family members to lonely people.

As a visitor to DocLab, you can take Kya’s place and handle all her visits for her. Take a seat with Sara, for example, who hasn’t seen her daughter for a long while. Your job is to play the daughter as best you can in a real conversation with Sara that lifts her spirits.

This virtual experience goes way beyond any idea that you’re talking to a robot, because the technology responds to your movements, as well as to what you say. The creators have tried to make the animations as realistic as possible, which means you get to talk to imperfect avatars—and make a real virtual connection!

Credits
Director
Co-director
    Taylor Olson,
    Koumbie
    Taylor Olson,
    Koumbie
Production
    Jon Meggitt for Arcade
    Jon Meggitt for Arcade
Co-production
    Taylor Olson for Afro Viking Pictures,
    Koumbie,
    Britt kerr
    Taylor Olson for Afro Viking Pictures,
    Koumbie,
    Britt kerr
Executive producer
    XOSECRET
    XOSECRET
Cinematography
    Tim Mombourquette
    Tim Mombourquette
Animation
    Emmett Rans
    Emmett Rans
Editing
    Amy Mielke
    Amy Mielke
Sound
    Graham Colwell
    Graham Colwell
Sound Design
    Graeme Campbell
    Graeme Campbell
Music
    Rich Aucoin
    Rich Aucoin
Screenplay
Key collaborator
Designer
    Aidan Searle
    Aidan Searle
Developer
    Shahd Sherief
    Shahd Sherief
Technical artist
    Zach Thompson-Howley
    Zach Thompson-Howley

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