Is reality obsolete? From low-tech function like body piercing and artificially-stocked fishing pools, to the latest in bionics and VR gaming, lara Lee's cyber-age intellectual survey - call it a .DOCumentary - downloads a Future Shockful of data and defines the parameters of advanced technologies that delete nature and reprogram mankind. Cryonics defy death; the Internet exists outside time and space; smart drugs and surgery upgrade the mind and body. But are we headed toward human optimization, or system crash? Exhilarating and disturbing, Synthetic Pleasures raises issues nobody today can afford to abort/ retry/ ignore.
Director
Iara LEE
lara Lee is of Korean descent. She was the producer of the Sao Paulo International Film Festival from 1984 to
1989. Today, lara is an active member of the Global Philanthropy Circle.
