You're watching someone think visually about what it feels like to be compressed into a system. The animation doesn't move like narrative cinema, it accumulates, layers, builds pressure through static frames and collage until the city itself becomes a character suffocating under its own weight. A researcher documenting modern life realizes the documentation is the life, and so do you.

Images of a crowded modern city pile up on screen: buildings, black crows, streams of barcodes, businessmen who look like clones of one another, and women hooked on shopping. Together they suggest urban life that is excessive, uniform and packed too tight. The short special mixes altered photographs, drawn animation, 3D objects and light that seeps through a multi-layered stand, aiming for a distinctive sense of unity and compression.