In most middle schools and high schools in Japan, there are compulsory rules on how a student may wear their hair or dress. OBEY, OBEY is a hairstyle tutorial on how to flawlessly achieve the obedient Japanese student look.
… >>>More than 100 pupils venture into a large-scale scientific experiment. Since most people do not know exactly how a computer works, they recreate the data processing processes of a computer chip live in their school hall. The process is observed with scepticism from the control room, because each processor particle has a very specific task.
… >>>A system planned from the beginning to the end. It is improved, up-scaled, marketed and ready for the future. We see technologies of production and reproduction and get to know the history of raising pigs in buildings.
… >>>Loud and fast, that is how it should be. Young people compose electronic music, dance and film themselves. Their social media feeds are widely shared and popular, and symbolize the rebellion of a young generation. However, there is the question, against which system do they protest?
… >>>A golfer fails to tee off, a soccer team plays against itself, a rally co-pilot is in the midst of an identity crisis. The audience remains seated, unable to act. Filmed in sports video games, WORLD AT STAKE turns the order of victory and defeat upside down and questions roles between individual sovereignty and collective passivity. In the face of catastrophe, what remains is a feeling of political powerlessness. Nothing less than the world is at stake.… >>>