https://impostermedia.com Imposter Media Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:33:39 +0000 https://impostermedia.com en https://impostermedia.com/Main Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:17:51 +0000 Imposter Media https://impostermedia.com/Main “Everything I learned in my life, I learned because I decided to try something new”― David Lynch &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; My name is Brett Gaylor. I am a filmmaker, a producer of interactive documentaries, a writer, and an imposter. <img width="1235" height="1364" width_o="1235" height_o="1364" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f7539cadeaf74f28c4fc47bb75838e20c31d284aeafd12fb8889a95a260851f/06-peabodyy.png" data-mid="95035569" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f7539cadeaf74f28c4fc47bb75838e20c31d284aeafd12fb8889a95a260851f/06-peabodyy.png" /> <img width="1235" height="1364" width_o="1235" height_o="1364" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21da4a6e2becc499c2b6cf5343d535e41f5723797e4e45e85a866b1d532cf7bb/04-webby.png" data-mid="95035542" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/21da4a6e2becc499c2b6cf5343d535e41f5723797e4e45e85a866b1d532cf7bb/04-webby.png" /> <img width="1235" height="1364" width_o="1235" height_o="1364" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1b261ac94df4fb8f0db09f87564a9a459124d3be036eadcec1e171644d42f4f3/05-ida.png" data-mid="95035544" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1b261ac94df4fb8f0db09f87564a9a459124d3be036eadcec1e171644d42f4f3/05-ida.png" /> <img width="300" height="331" width_o="300" height_o="331" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb8455b86759ebb11eb57d3181181823fdd3936cad50ad5a66b079601e736d89/prix-2.png" data-mid="97415324" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/eb8455b86759ebb11eb57d3181181823fdd3936cad50ad5a66b079601e736d89/prix-2.png" /> Everything I’ve ever made took a lot of faking to get done. It would be easier if I did the same thing more than once. Instead, I’ve been making cross platform/new media/immersive/interactive works for the Internet, TV and digital devices while they’ve been in the process of being invented over the last two decades. It requires a lot of improvisation; figuring out the rules and making up new ones. https://impostermedia.com/Festivals Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:17:51 +0000 Imposter Media https://impostermedia.com/Festivals Things I’ve made have appeared at festivals around the world, broadcast in dozens of countries and streamed in all the platforms that stream. <img width="831" height="358" width_o="831" height_o="358" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad53e77fee805fab60d9aa57396be673ad41ec432f10e3c06af9307ecb9332f7/01_sundance.png" data-mid="95025995" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/831/i/ad53e77fee805fab60d9aa57396be673ad41ec432f10e3c06af9307ecb9332f7/01_sundance.png" /> <img width="831" height="358" width_o="831" height_o="358" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d3011fcb9742859d82c2bc4139280fb4a0bfc0d17d050a9e30aab976d94408a/02_sxsw.png" data-mid="95026009" border="0" 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height="358" width_o="831" height_o="358" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1281afaccc7bab28d341177aed603a6385729e84b7f538dbaf6f318853165435/20_arte-logo.png" data-mid="97415495" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/831/i/1281afaccc7bab28d341177aed603a6385729e84b7f538dbaf6f318853165435/20_arte-logo.png" /> <img width="831" height="358" width_o="831" height_o="358" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a95fb9576216976b0e4419f6ad74cfd53d8769cc64be9fba4954c727ebbe274b/19_c-sat.png" data-mid="95035127" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/831/i/a95fb9576216976b0e4419f6ad74cfd53d8769cc64be9fba4954c727ebbe274b/19_c-sat.png" /> https://impostermedia.com/Awards-and-Collaborations Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:28:09 +0000 Imposter Media https://impostermedia.com/Awards-and-Collaborations AWARDS&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I’ve been honored to receive the International Documentary Association Award for best series, The Prix Gemeaux for Best Interactive Series, three Webby Awards and a Peabody Award. COLLABORATIONS&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Sometimes I help other people figure things out, too. I collaborate with AtlasV, The National Film Board of Canada, Mozilla, EyeSteelFilm, Upian, Felix &amp; Paul, Harmony Labs and Consumer Reports. I’m an Imposter, making media. We all are. Get in touch. https://impostermedia.com/All-Projects-Header Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:17:52 +0000 Imposter Media https://impostermedia.com/All-Projects-Header PROJECTS&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; https://impostermedia.com/Necessary-Tomorrows-1 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 04:09:11 +0000 Imposter Media https://impostermedia.com/Necessary-Tomorrows-1 Necessary TomorrowsA science fiction / speculative documentary hybrid audio series.&nbsp; Ursula, an AI instructor from the future, encourages listeners in the 2060s to study the turbulent 2020s. Mixing speculative fiction and documentary, leading sci-fi authors bring us three different futures that seem impossible in 2024: animals are people, capitalism is banned from outer space and humans and AI have become kin. We meet the writers who dream of these futures and the activists, scientists and thinkers who are turning fiction into fact. https://impostermedia.com/Welcome-To-The-Metaverse-1 Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:33:39 +0000 Imposter Media https://impostermedia.com/Welcome-To-The-Metaverse-1 Welcome To The MetaverseWelcome To The Metaverse (WttM) explores the problematics of the Metaverse in one of the most realized versions of the Metaverse available: Meta’s Instagram face filters. These filters will be recognizable to the billions of users of Instagram, Tiktok, or Snapchat: a user’s visage is augmented by computer graphics that track the position of their facial features . WttM is novel in that the face filter changes to match spoken narration. It operates as a hybrid between linear media, such as film or radio, and interactive and immersive media. By using affordances and tropes that feel familiar to social media users, I’m attempting with this documentary experience to introduce messages and conversations that they might not receive otherwise. In Umberto Eco’s terms, I’m waging Semiotic Guerrilla Warfare: subverting the communication “chain” by leaving the “channel” intact (Instagram) and inserting into the “message” (the documentary) a different “code”. This code is ambivalence - an unease about social media, tech platforms and surveillance. https://impostermedia.com/Discriminator Thu, 27 May 2021 20:28:08 +0000 Imposter Media https://impostermedia.com/Discriminator Discriminator is an interactive documentary exploring facial recognition databases. In 2006, director Brett Gaylor uploaded a photo of himself on his honeymoon to Flickr, a web 2.0 startup that had just been purchased by Yahoo. 13 years later, he discovered it had been used to train facial recognition systems by the Chinese military, Estee Lauder and the Moscow Police. A tale of how Internet culture’s early instinct to overshare helped to create technologies that are proliferating faster than the law can control, Discriminato r brings audiences' faces into the frame in a combination of AI, AR and animation. Watch Discriminator at www.discriminator.film https://impostermedia.com/The-Internet-of-Everything Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:17:52 +0000 Imposter Media https://impostermedia.com/The-Internet-of-Everything The Internet of EverythingA television documentary and web series about the Internet of shit things. The Internet is invading all aspects of your life. No longer confined to your computer or your phone, the Internet is now in garbage cans, refrigerators, and the infrastructure of our cities. The future will either be a surveillance nightmare or an eco-utopia, the outcome determined by startups in Silicon Valley and Shenzen. The Internet of Everything captures our present moment , when both futures are in progress. ︎ A production of EyeSteelFilm for CBC Television. https://impostermedia.com/Fortune Sat, 30 Jan 2021 04:09:35 +0000 Imposter Media https://impostermedia.com/Fortune FortuneA short documentary in Augmented Reality “When it comes to examinations of the psychology of money there’s a human tendency to tune out, to think we know it all and avoid thinking about our own limits. This is why the augmented reality vignettes of “Fortune!,” designed to be watched on a smartphone or tablet, aim to superimpose themselves on our world, to disrupt it with humor. “- LA Times Money, from bills to coins, has no intrinsic value beyond what we’ve collectively agreed to grant it. However, there’s no denying that money governs our lives. This series of animated documentary shorts in AR for smartphones, tablets and social media platforms, explores that relationship. ︎ A co-production with AtlasV, the National Film Board of Canada &amp; Arte. Premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival https://impostermedia.com/Do-Not-Track Sat, 30 Jan 2021 04:32:46 +0000 Imposter Media https://impostermedia.com/Do-Not-Track Do Not TrackAn interactive documentary that collects information about you while you watch it. Do Not Track is a 7 part interactive documentary series exploring privacy and the web economy. The series was produced by Upian in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, Arte and Bayerischer Rundfunk.&nbsp; Released bi-weekly over a 3 month period, the documentary series collected data about users in order to help them understand how their personal information was used online. ︎ A co-production with Upian, the National Film Board of Canada, Arte &amp; Bayerischer Rundfunk. Do Not Track was the recipient of the 75 annual Peabody Award, a Prix Gemeaux for Best Interactive Series, and the International Documentary Association Award for best series. Watch Do Not Track here.