In the near future, Xzir, a woman in her thirties, finds herself faced with an unwanted pregnancy. In the ultra-digital, techno-authoritarian society in which she lives, pregnancies are automatically entered in a national register and monitored by the state, abortions are banned. Xzir is going to take the illegal path of the DarkWeb to end her pregnancy, whatever the cost.
Diploma project (2024) by Sara Dutch
Fiction / 19 min
Synopsis
Xzir, a 34-year-old woman, is 6 weeks pregnant. Her pregnancy was neither planned nor desired. In the technocratic, authoritarian society in which she lives, which is governed by the principles of surveillance capitalism, citizens' data, collected through information technology, is sold to the state by multinationals. After 8 weeks of pregnancy, Xzir will automatically be entered on the state's national register of pregnancies. To escape her condition, Xzir, with the help of her friend Vrex, goes to the DarkWeb to buy abortion pills and terminate her pregnancy illegally.
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