Em Assumes Death

Also available as part of the short film program Nordic Shorts 5: Chilled ⸺ At the moment he dies, Em’s ghost books a sitting with an AI-generated coach named Tammy. The anime avatar patiently calls up all the clips that brought Em to this point, the redundant message of which is: What you imagine becomes real. Jacob Schill paints an intoxicating picture of an imagination colonized by social media, in which self-affirmation and delusion become indistinguishable.