Chapter
Five



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How can body movements represent the shift in the status quo ?

The film initially began as a corporate-style promotional video for MESIF, but as the project evolved, so did the film’s purpose. The final version became a psychological study of posture, movement, and compliance—a performance artist embodying the shifts in a MESIF-controlled world.


Reframing the Film as a Study in Performativity

Diptych structure → Two parallel narratives: one depicting the status quo through actions like resting, socialising, moving; the other exaggerating the movements in the new world underscoring the establishment of stereotypes as universal protocols of being.

 Body as data → The film shifts from a pre-MESIF study of activities performed by the body to a post-MESIF encoding and amplification of pre-MESIF functions of the body.

Physical storytelling → Rather than direct exposition, the film lets the body articulate MESIF’s impact through movement.

By abstracting MESIF’s influence into gesture, tension, and restraint, the film captures how AI regulation seeps into the body—until even movement is datafied.



The project has been exhibited at -

Royal College of Art

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