MY_BBY_8L3W
2014 · 3m · Germany
Directed by NEOZOON
Genres: documentary, experimental
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
A found-footage video collage assembling thirty YouTube clips of women presenting and cuddling their pets in selfie-style videos; the women's identical vocabulary and gestures of devotion swell into an uncanny chorus, exposing how pet-love becomes obsession and how domestic dependencies and subtle violence hide in plain sight.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Thirty women talking to their pets at the same time, arranged in a grid. The title is leet-speak for 'my baby, I love you.' What starts as charming degrades into something anthropologically terrifying — NEOZOON basically invented the genre of YouTube-as-found-footage-horror-about-capitalism.
NEOZOON taking thirty YouTube pet-love videos and synchronizing them into a single uncanny chorus — this is found-footage video art at its most disciplined, the Christian Marclay / Farocki comparisons earned. A three-minute essay that finds genuine horror in the grammar of domestic devotion.
Found-footage collage of thirty YouTube pet videos synchronized into a chorus — the editing is what tips devotion into something unsettling. Three minutes of pure formal nerve, and the comments section ("went from hilarious to outright weird") backs me up.
Festivals
- International Film Festival Rotterdam 2015
- Internationales Frauen Film Fest 2015