«11811»
«11811» is a project remaking the film Metropolis. In Metropolis, workers operate machines in ten-hour shifts, and the film features massive clocks with ten divisions.
I wanted to explore what would happen if such a shift never ended. This led to the creation of the worker designated 11811. His friend dies in an explosion, and he tries to turn time back—and time obeys him. However, now the same day repeats endlessly, and his friend dies again every time.
The hero tries everything: warning his friend, escaping to the surface, and disabling the machines. Each attempt ends worse than the last. He finds only one way out, and in the finale, it is revealed that the loop hasn’t disappeared; it has simply passed on to the next worker. The number 11811 reads the same forwards and backward, which further contributes to the cyclical nature and dramatic tension of the plot.
«Panopticon: The Prison Without Walls»
The essay begins with a simple question: Have you ever behaved differently just because someone might see you? I then trace the origin of this feeling. In the late 18th century, the philosopher Jeremy Bentham devised a prison where the inmate never knows if a guard is watching or not, so they behave well just in case. The prison was never actually built. However, its idea took hold so deeply that we live by it every day.I travel from Bentham’s blueprint to Michel Foucault, who noticed the same pattern in schools, barracks, and factories, and from there to urban surveillance, social media, and algorithms. It was not my goal to frighten readers with surveillance or to criticize social media, but rather to calmly show how the mechanism works and leave the conclusion to the viewer’s judgment.
