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The film cuts through the administrative paperwork required for the director to live in different countries and explores the ambiguity and fragility of identity in the bureaucratic system, in the cultural context and in today’s social industry. Bureaucracies construct individual systemic identities in a series of mechanisms intended to sustain the functioning of society. Underneath the bureaucracy there is a deeper psychological need to commit to ‘sacred’ beliefs or to abandon silly ‘superstitions’. People are shaped by what they create or by what they destroy. In the artificial intelligence industry, which alleges to represent the future, the human subject is the first to disappear, and what comes sooner than the promise of the future is more efficient globalised exploitation.

Chen Zirui
Chen Zirui (b.1997) is currently conducting research and creative practice at the Graduate School of Moving Image at Kunsthochschule Kassel. His works often stem from his own identity, discussing political and social issues from the perspective of technology and media. Beyond the issues themselves, he also attempts to highlight the way narratives are constructed. His works include experimental videos and installations.