concept
«Stranger Shift» — an experimental reedit of the film Metropolis (1927), transforming the narrative of mechanized labor into a psychological horror about an infinite time loop.
«DO NOT WATCH» — a documentary video essay exploring pathological curiosity and the transmutation of real scenes of violence and death into mass-consumed internet content.
Re-installation
The worker descends into the underground city to begin another shift. His task is to endlessly repeat the same movements, conforming to the rhythm of a massive machine. Gradually, the familiar order breaks down: time begins to repeat, and familiar events occur over and over again.
Realizing he was caught in a closed loop, the protagonist attempts to stop the mechanism and escape the underground labyrinth. However, every attempt at resistance only returns him to the start of the shift. The boundary between reality, memory, and hallucination begins to dissolve.
In the finale, the hero confronts the machine once again, but this time begins working before it gives a command. He no longer simply obeys the mechanism—he becomes a part of it.
video essay
Online communities exist where real deaths, accidents, and scenes of violence become objects of mass viewing, discussion, and dissemination. What once remained outside the public sphere can now appear in a regular news feed or Telegram channel—amidst memes, advertisements, and everyday messages.
This video essay explores the phenomenon of painful curiosity: why images of others' suffering attract people, how the internet has changed the ways we consume shocking content, and at what point documentary evidence transforms into entertainment.
Through the history of shock websites, fragments of documentary footage, and the statements of internet creators, the film examines the contradiction between humanity’s natural interest in death and the ethical consequences of turning real tragedies into spectacle.
