A 14-minute stop-motion film that watches like a ritual nobody agreed to question until now. Yūko Asano doesn't show you ant hierarchies, she shows you the weight of them, the tiny repetitions that calcify into law, the way submission looks when nobody's watching. You leave understanding something about power that dialogue could never teach, and you want to watch it again immediately because the details have already started revealing themselves.

In a carefully built world of insects, a praying mantis wanders into a society of ants governed by a mechanical queen. Yūko Asano's 14-minute stop motion film from 1994 uses this fantasy setting to reflect on gendered power dynamics. Through the ritual activities of the colony, it asks viewers to consider how social subjection along gender lines takes shape.