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Welcome to Set
웰컴 투 셋

SHORT EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY
2026 | NETHERLANDS, SOUTH KOREA | 14:45 | COLOUR | ENGLISH

An experimental documentary reenacts how AI lie detectors are made from lab-grown films directed by data scientists, as genuine human feelings escape the data/film sets.

축하합니다. 귀하께서는 거짓말 탐지 AI의 데이터 평가자로 선발되셨습니다! 기계학습을 위한 거짓말 샘플 영상을 재연하며 〈웰컴 투 셋〉은 알고리즘의 재료가 만들어지는 과정을 목격하고, 관찰하고, 평가하도록 관객을 초대한다. 인공지능은 과연 인공적이고 우리의 감정은 데이터셋을 비껴간다.

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Congratulations! You’ve been selected as a validity rater for datasets behind lie detection algorithms.

Reenacting video samples of lies for machine learning, Welcome to Set invites you to watch and evaluate some films: the lab-grown ingredients of these technologies crafted by data scientists. This experimental documentary explores the artificiality of artificial intelligence as the data/film set fails to capture real-life feelings.

“Here, we learn that every one of our wrinkles, every twitch of our eyebrows, can now be the subject of commerce, and subsequently of control. Welcome to Set tells us this, and we shudder: our very faces feed the machines. And the machines read our faces.”

Jury Statement, Tënk Opening Scenes Award (Visions du Réel 2026)

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awards

Tënk Opening Scenes Award, Visions du Réel 2026 [Opening Scenes Competition]

exhibitions

2026 Enter/Public/Space, Rozenstraat, Amsterdam (NL)

2026 Watching Machines: Life under Algorithmic Eyes, The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague (NL)

screenings

2026 55th International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL)

2026 57th Visions du Réel (CH)

2026 46th Nederlands Film Festival (NL)

2026 27th Jeonju International Film Festival (KR)

2026 18th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival (KR)

2026 16th Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (RO)

2026 19th Science New Wave Festival (US)

2026 22nd Pariscience International Science Film Festival (FR)

2026 23rd Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul (KR)

2026 28th Seoul International Women’s Film Festival (KR)

2026 9th INTERSECCIÓN - A Coruña International Film Festival (ES)

2026 Farocki’s Films as Research: Serious Games, Het Documentaire Paviljoen, Amsterdam (NL)

2026 2nd Leiden Essay Film Festival (NL)

2026 27th Jeonju International Film Festival: Korean Cinema Encore Showcase, Heyri Cinema, Paju (KR)

2026 2nd Bref International Short Film Festival (IT)

2026 7th Job Film Days (IT)

catalogues & markets

2026 SEE NL (NL)

2026 Cannes Short Film Corner (FR)

a film by

Cyan Bae

with

Inés Dominguez del Corral
Ildiko Flipse
Charlotte Willerscheidt
Almas Mahmood
Hyewon Jeong
Yaxin Xu
Sara Amzian

produced by

Francesco Ragazzi (Operational Images) & Cyan Bae (Pingping Productions)

project management

Elka Smith

co-directors of photography

Cristina Lavosi & Hattie Wade

edited by

Cyan Bae

co-editor

Anastasija Piroženko

sound design & music

Sergio González Cuervo

colour grading

Mayıs Rukel

graphic design

Cyan Bae

hair & makeup

Suzan van Baal

special thanks

Evangelia Kranioti
Ruben van de Ven
Anonymous Participant J

Ildikó Zonga Plájás | Albert Elings | Daeun Lim | Julia Sokolnicka | Inaya Basu | Minji Ma | Jeamin Cha | Kevin B. Lee | Sunwoo Jung | Jae Pil Eun | Inup Park | Hyeonjeong Nes Joo | Minsang Damiaan Kim | Gang Buron-Yi | Sumi Im | Junwoo Lee | Marijn Hoijtink | Juha Vuori | Lauren B. Wilcox | Rocco Bellanova | Jelena Belic | Yoav Galai | Madeline Swainhart | Alice West | Yen Kim

Institute of Political Science, Leiden University

funding

This work was supported by funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (SECURITY VISION, Grant Agreement No. 866535).

video installation

WOODWORK

Daeun Lim

INSTALLATION SUPPORT

Niloofar Salehi

FUNDING

The spatial video installation is made possible with the support of CBK Rotterdam.

PHOTOGRAPHY

exhibition view at Rozenstraat, Amsterdam (2026)
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