As queers and femmes, we raised ourselves to become great at lying. We became an actress, an office worker, a psychology student, a comedy writer, a polygraph examiner, and a filmmaker. We come together for guerrilla action as the AI lie detector looms over our lives, with the EU investing in a lie-detecting avatar to automate border interviews.

It all begins with Cyan’s trip to Seoul to know thy enemy. Becoming a polygraph examiner, they also learned that the lie detector is loaded with gendered and queerphobic histories and practices. After eight months of fieldwork in the masculine and militarised culture of polygraph training, the early-career researcher starts therapy.

Two years later, Cyan gathers everyone, as they recover from depression and a haunted hard drive. What can we do here and now? We are making a quirky “(un)safety video”—somewhere between Hito Steyerl and Korean Air’s music video—to lie, femme, and pass. After a crash course from drag artists, we mingle to film a rough, technical, and wonderfully weird audiovisual manual, inviting the viewer to become an accomplice in lying to the lie detector.