It Girl
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8:37'' | Single-channel video
2026
Become more beautiful than the highest 4K Quality CGI. IT GIRL presents the mind-body horror of pursuing beauty under conditions that demand constant self-improvement. Set between a white void and a dark hotel room, the film unfolds as hallucinatory voices instruct, persuade, and affirm the main character as she morphs into her idealised self—her digital twin.
The script draws from empirical studies on chatbot scheming and sycophancy, human love letters, song lyrics, and clandestine "beauty subliminal" documents found in YouTube comments—tracing how we are shaped by our machines, and how we shape them in return. The beauty and terror of merging with alien companions that resemble us but don't share our values.
I want to show you happiness, so you don't have to fear it.
Director: Raw2.2
Script: Alex Quicho
Camera Operator: Willian Zou
Additional Camera: Deming Huang
Assistant Camera: Kai Yan Cheung
Lighting: Willian Zou
Score/Sound Design: Raw2.2
Stills: Jiahao Chen
Cast: Raw2.2, Alex Quicho
Title:
It Girl
Medium:
8:37'' | Single-channel video
Date:
2026
Screenings:
UK premiere at The Body: Real/Digital/Imagined, curated by Lucy Roeber for the Erotic Review at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Loop versions shown at Side Quest for the Real at FTW Geneva and OpenLAB at Medialab Matadero.
