Quarantine Watch #192: Welcome to Chechnya (2020)

Holy shit — this was brutal. Hard to watch at sometimes. It’s crazy to think torture, murder, and erasure is still going on in the modern era. The use of deep fake technology is revolutionary. I't changes the whole way documentaries can be presented. Additionally it is the first time I’ve seen deep fake tech used for an actual good purpose. It was a technology that I thought could never be used in such away -- it always felt insidious or a way for people to make false videos even easier. The entire doc is also so well constructed. It’s amazing they were able to even film it.

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