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A millennial couple sit down to a twelve-course dinner in a Michelin-starred restaurant that they can just about afford and pass the time discussing relationships. Between courses, when they download a free baby face generating app which uses an AI to predict what their children might look like, their relationship begins to come apart at the seams.
Babyface is a black comedy which investigates the material reality at the heart of the millenial generation.
"It was a tasting menu ‘dedicated to vegetables’. Was it because of the Russian thing, she thought? It being generally agreed upon that vegetables were more ethical than animals. To eat.
It was a lunch date, which he chose because it was fifty-five pounds cheaper per head than the dinner. After some deliberation, she realised she was happy about the vegetable thing because she’d be less tired in the evening and would be able to work on her novel, which, as far as she was concerned, was a Marxist take on intergenerational resentment when it came to money. It was set in a house, a bit like the one her parents still lived in. She wished they would get on and sell it so that she could put a deposit down on a house now, rather than in twenty years, when she was fifty five."
Helen Rollins is a writer and filmmaker who lectures in philosophy and art at GCAS. She is founder and director of a counter-cultural production company called The Magician’s Niece. She is also the author of Psychocinema (forthcoming with Polity Press in 2024) and was co-host of the art and theory podcast ‘The Lack’.