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# Lou Fauroux's WhatRemains, Genesis screens at MUTEK Forum
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/lou-fauroux-whatremains-genesis-screens-at-mutek-forum/
- Published: 2026-08-27T22:53:21.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-27T22:53:21.000Z
- Description: Set in 2048, the film gives Google a cure for death — until hackers leak the source code to everyone. In Montreal Wednesday, with a Q&A to follow.
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: Lou Fauroux, MUTEK, Montreal, Film, speculative fiction, ai, Festival, queer

It is 2048, Google owns most of the planet, and death has finally been productized. In *WhatRemains, Genesis*, French filmmaker [Lou Fauroux](https://www.killscreen.com/tag/lou-faroux/) imagines digital immortality software hoarded by an elite of the rich and powerful until hackers seize the source code and hand it to everyone else. The 19-minute film screens Wednesday, August 26 at [MUTEK Forum](https://forum.mutek.org/en/shows/2026/whatremains-genesis-screening-and-artist-q-a-with-lou-fauroux-presented-by-leuguelionne?ref=killscreen.com) in Montreal, with an artist Q&A to follow.

Fauroux is a visual artist, filmmaker, and DJ who came to moving image sideways — through a community of porn producers and performers encountered in Los Angeles, and before that through a childhood of MTV spectacle, pirated American series, and Tumblr rabbit holes. Fauroux self-describes as "a true product of bedroom culture," and that is exactly the sensibility the film runs on: the internet's found materials, reassembled into queer mythology. Since premiering at Cinéma du Réel in 2023, the film has traveled to festivals in Thailand, Spain, and New York; Fauroux [announced the Montreal stop](https://www.instagram.com/p/Da-bsmWnHWg/?ref=killscreen.com) in July.

Here is why this one is ours: Fauroux treats platforms the way game artists treat engines, as material with politics baked in. Digital immortality is, after all, a respawn fantasy, and the film asks who gets the extra lives. The screening, presented by L'Euguélionne, a Montreal feminist bookstore, at a forum themed "Symbiotic Frequencies," shows how far outside the games-industry frame this conversation is happening — which is precisely where we like to find it. The film screens in English with French subtitles; the Q&A runs in French with live transcription.

Artists bending corporate tools toward collective ends is a Killscreen through-line — see our conversation on [Sahej Rahal's AI instruments and cooperative creatures](https://www.killscreen.com/sahej-rahals-ai-instruments-and-cooperative-creatures/).

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