A young IT professional named Xiao Zhang approached me, a journalist, with a peculiar story. He recounted that ever since he updated a plugin capable of animating still photos, his life started to feel off-kilter. He discovered that the animations were unsettlingly lifelike, particularly with the new feature that could extract animated portraits from their backgrounds. Sometimes, he even sensed that the people in the photos had come to life and were peering out of their frames to spy on him, which sent shivers down his spine. However, when he tried to call out for help in front of my camera, he realized to his horror that he himself was merely an animated image generated from a photograph

Directed by Zhongyang Wang (China)