Bianca Poletti’s disturbing distortions
The director’s dystopian short film follows a teenage girl who becomes immersed in the sinister world of digital face filters.
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- Production Company Zauberberg Productions
- Director Bianca Poletti
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Credits
View on- Production Company Zauberberg Productions
- Director Bianca Poletti
- Production Company Primo/USA
- Editing Cabin Editing Company
- VFX Parliament VFX
- Color Rare Medium
- Audio Post Field Day Sound
- Production Designer Sara Fern
- Executive Producer Frank Siegl
- Executive Producer Andrea Roman-Perse
- Executive Producer Jaime Vidal
- Producer Beverly Amidon
- DP Kayla Hoff
- Editor Dusten Zimmerman
- Colorist Mikey Rossiter
- Sound Designer Natalie Huizenga
- Music Supervisor Abbey Hendrix
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Credits
powered by- Production Company Zauberberg Productions
- Director Bianca Poletti
- Production Company Primo/USA
- Editing Cabin Editing Company
- VFX Parliament VFX
- Color Rare Medium
- Audio Post Field Day Sound
- Production Designer Sara Fern
- Executive Producer Frank Siegl
- Executive Producer Andrea Roman-Perse
- Executive Producer Jaime Vidal
- Producer Beverly Amidon
- DP Kayla Hoff
- Editor Dusten Zimmerman
- Colorist Mikey Rossiter
- Sound Designer Natalie Huizenga
- Music Supervisor Abbey Hendrix
Directed by Bianca Poletti through Zauberberg Productions and Primo, this affecting short film offers an equally humorous and unsettling perspective on young people’s unhealthy obsession with digital perfection.
Titled FaceTweak, it follows a young girl who, influenced by the images of beauty she’s exposed to online, uses face-tuning technology to push her appearance to disturbing extremes. It was inspired by recent studies underscoring the worrying impact that beautifying filters and AI-face tuning has on young people’s self-image and mental health.
FaceTweak was conceived spontaneously during pre-production for Poletti’s latest project, Video Barn. With extra time remaining after filming the trailer, the idea quickly took shape, with the script finalised just a week before shooting.
Poletti adds: “When does tweaking our image stop? When is it enough? When do we feel complete and "perfect?" The Substance is a great reference for this, focusing on aging, but again, taking things to the extreme.”
