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Death, Algorithms, and the Infinite Scroll -Inside FACES OF DEATH with Daniel Goldhaber & Isa Mazzei

I’ve been tracking Daniel Goldhaber’s Faces of Death long before it slipped into the kind of production purgatory that usually signals trouble. The initial hook alone felt like a dare: follow up the Oscar-shortlisted How to Blow Up a Pipeline with a reimagining of the infamous Faces of Death—and cast Charli XCX while you’re at it. The film wrapped in 2023 and was slated for a SXSW premiere in 2025, before being yanked at the last minute. That kind of move usually screams “disaster,” but the whispers around this one suggested something else entirely—not just extreme violence, but ideas sharp enough to make distributors nervous.  At its center is Margot Romero (Barbie Ferreira), a content moderator for a TikTok-adjacent platform called Kino, tasked with filtering the internet’s most depraved impulses before they’re fed back to us as algorithmic slop. It’s numbing, thankless work—until she flags a video that feels… different. Not just brutal, but composed. Deliberate. Cinematic. It even borrows narration from Faces of Death like it’s quoting scripture. Then another clip appears. And another. What starts as routine exposure metastasizes into fixation, as Margot begins tugging at threads that refuse to separate cleanly—blurring the line between performance and reality, until she can’t tell if she’s uncovering a hoax, a horror show, or something far more systemic and unsettling. I was lucky enough to sit down with Director / Co-Writer Goldhaber and Co-Writer / Producer  Isa Mazzei to talk about threading that needle—taking a so-called snuff artifact (one that was, of course, largely fabricated) and reshaping it into a pointed, feminist meta-commentary on a culture that doesn’t just consume violence, but scrolls past it without blinking.