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The Experience of a Rat

20250.0 / 101 min
Animation

Overview

This experimental video uses a rat in a 12-frame Stop Motion loop, structurally appropriating Muybridge, to critique the aggressive, futile cycle of discontinuous production and invisible labor in the Capitalist Order.

This ultra-short, experimental video art piece serves as a stark apparatus for decoding the aggressive rhythm and discontinuous production of contemporary life. The work is built upon a Stop Motion loop composed of just 12 frames, using this brief, intense format as an installation of shock that conveys the systemic pressure of a speed-obsessed society. The central figure, the rat, is placed to represent the archetypal subject of the urban underclass—the individual whose labor is rendered invisible and who is constantly forced into a struggle for survival. What we observe is not an advancement, but a fruitless scurry trapped in a vicious cycle. As the image repeats, it whispers that what we perceive as progress is, in fact, nothing more than an exhausting, self-referential recurrent routine. Rhythm/12 Frames compels the viewer to question both their own limits of perception and the grim reality of existence reduced to a survival mechanism within the system

Cast

Rat

Rat

Rat

Crew

Mehmet Talha Gürel

Mehmet Talha Gürel

Director

Mehmet Talha Gürel

Mehmet Talha Gürel

Writer

Mehmet Talha Gürel

Mehmet Talha Gürel

Animation