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46 seconds excerpt of the video S*X Workers
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S*X Workers is an animated documentary that collages perspectives from a range of sex workers on topics including sexuality and consent, the whorearchy, ethics, and labour under capitalism. It asks what responsible looking means when bodies are politicised and the image keeps shifting under our gaze. A film about sex workers, not sex work.

I wanted to make a film about sex workers rather than sex work. That distinction feels crucial because debates so often reduce people to symbols. The inspiration came from a heated argument among friends that split into the usual binary of exploitation versus empowerment. Instead of adding another opinion, I chose to step back and listen to sex workers themselves, letting complexity replace slogans and honouring the messy realities of work, desire, and power.

Visually, I worked with AI-generated, ever-morphing facial features, leaving gender unspecified in the prompts. This abstraction masks identity, resists voyeurism, and underscores how representation remains unstable when mediated by large language models trained on images scraped from the web, usually without context or consent.

Each frame was generated individually using Stable Diffusion and custom-trained models, with each image fed back as the source for the next, a process of controlled drift. By tuning parameters that govern image-to-image fidelity, edge guidance, and randomness, motion emerges as an image slowly loses and remakes itself. The result is an animation of mutating faces that can be witnessed without being pinned down. To refuse the fixed image is to refuse the voyeuristic one.

My intention was to create a space for multiple experiences, presented as vignettes rather than a single arc. For me, the film is as much about listening as it is about looking, inviting audiences to lean in without judgement.

S*X Workers is an animated documentary that collages perspectives from a range of sex workers on topics including sexuality and consent, the whorearchy, ethics, and labour under capitalism. It asks what responsible looking means when bodies are politicised and the image keeps shifting under our gaze. A film about sex workers, not sex work.

I wanted to make a film about sex workers rather than sex work. That distinction feels crucial because debates so often reduce people to symbols. The inspiration came from a heated argument among friends that split into the usual binary of exploitation versus empowerment. Instead of adding another opinion, I chose to step back and listen to sex workers themselves, letting complexity replace slogans and honouring the messy realities of work, desire, and power.

Visually, I worked with AI-generated, ever-morphing facial features, leaving gender unspecified in the prompts. This abstraction masks identity, resists voyeurism, and underscores how representation remains unstable when mediated by large language models trained on images scraped from the web, usually without context or consent.

Each frame was generated individually using Stable Diffusion and custom-trained models, with each image fed back as the source for the next, a process of controlled drift. By tuning parameters that govern image-to-image fidelity, edge guidance, and randomness, motion emerges as an image slowly loses and remakes itself. The result is an animation of mutating faces that can be witnessed without being pinned down. To refuse the fixed image is to refuse the voyeuristic one.

My intention was to create a space for multiple experiences, presented as vignettes rather than a single arc. For me, the film is as much about listening as it is about looking, inviting audiences to lean in without judgement.

S*X Workers is an animated documentary that collages perspectives from a range of sex workers on topics including sexuality and consent, the whorearchy, ethics, and labour under capitalism. It asks what responsible looking means when bodies are politicised and the image keeps shifting under our gaze. A film about sex workers, not sex work.

I wanted to make a film about sex workers rather than sex work. That distinction feels crucial because debates so often reduce people to symbols. The inspiration came from a heated argument among friends that split into the usual binary of exploitation versus empowerment. Instead of adding another opinion, I chose to step back and listen to sex workers themselves, letting complexity replace slogans and honouring the messy realities of work, desire, and power.

Visually, I worked with AI-generated, ever-morphing facial features, leaving gender unspecified in the prompts. This abstraction masks identity, resists voyeurism, and underscores how representation remains unstable when mediated by large language models trained on images scraped from the web, usually without context or consent.

Each frame was generated individually using Stable Diffusion and custom-trained models, with each image fed back as the source for the next, a process of controlled drift. By tuning parameters that govern image-to-image fidelity, edge guidance, and randomness, motion emerges as an image slowly loses and remakes itself. The result is an animation of mutating faces that can be witnessed without being pinned down. To refuse the fixed image is to refuse the voyeuristic one.

My intention was to create a space for multiple experiences, presented as vignettes rather than a single arc. For me, the film is as much about listening as it is about looking, inviting audiences to lean in without judgement.

S*X Workers is an animated documentary that collages perspectives from a range of sex workers on topics including sexuality and consent, the whorearchy, ethics, and labour under capitalism. It asks what responsible looking means when bodies are politicised and the image keeps shifting under our gaze. A film about sex workers, not sex work.

I wanted to make a film about sex workers rather than sex work. That distinction feels crucial because debates so often reduce people to symbols. The inspiration came from a heated argument among friends that split into the usual binary of exploitation versus empowerment. Instead of adding another opinion, I chose to step back and listen to sex workers themselves, letting complexity replace slogans and honouring the messy realities of work, desire, and power.

Visually, I worked with AI-generated, ever-morphing facial features, leaving gender unspecified in the prompts. This abstraction masks identity, resists voyeurism, and underscores how representation remains unstable when mediated by large language models trained on images scraped from the web, usually without context or consent.

Each frame was generated individually using Stable Diffusion and custom-trained models, with each image fed back as the source for the next, a process of controlled drift. By tuning parameters that govern image-to-image fidelity, edge guidance, and randomness, motion emerges as an image slowly loses and remakes itself. The result is an animation of mutating faces that can be witnessed without being pinned down. To refuse the fixed image is to refuse the voyeuristic one.

My intention was to create a space for multiple experiences, presented as vignettes rather than a single arc. For me, the film is as much about listening as it is about looking, inviting audiences to lean in without judgement.

S*X Workers is an animated documentary that collages perspectives from a range of sex workers on topics including sexuality and consent, the whorearchy, ethics, and labour under capitalism. It asks what responsible looking means when bodies are politicised and the image keeps shifting under our gaze. A film about sex workers, not sex work.

I wanted to make a film about sex workers rather than sex work. That distinction feels crucial because debates so often reduce people to symbols. The inspiration came from a heated argument among friends that split into the usual binary of exploitation versus empowerment. Instead of adding another opinion, I chose to step back and listen to sex workers themselves, letting complexity replace slogans and honouring the messy realities of work, desire, and power.

Visually, I worked with AI-generated, ever-morphing facial features, leaving gender unspecified in the prompts. This abstraction masks identity, resists voyeurism, and underscores how representation remains unstable when mediated by large language models trained on images scraped from the web, usually without context or consent.

Each frame was generated individually using Stable Diffusion and custom-trained models, with each image fed back as the source for the next, a process of controlled drift. By tuning parameters that govern image-to-image fidelity, edge guidance, and randomness, motion emerges as an image slowly loses and remakes itself. The result is an animation of mutating faces that can be witnessed without being pinned down. To refuse the fixed image is to refuse the voyeuristic one.

My intention was to create a space for multiple experiences, presented as vignettes rather than a single arc. For me, the film is as much about listening as it is about looking, inviting audiences to lean in without judgement.