Director: Luo Yujing

Synopsis

While working from home during the pandemic, I often filmed footage of the hamsters at home, recording their daily lives and routines. Stuck at home for a long time, at some point I felt that my situation formed an interesting mirror of the hamsters'. Drawing on Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis and on my understanding of hamster behavior, I imagined a story: I turn into a hamster, trapped in a cage with plenty of food and water. I try to find my original identity and a way to escape, but helplessly my body gradually adapts to its current form, my will begins to waver, and I start to question who I am...