The Last Subway

2017
Single channel color digital video with sound
9 min., 23 sec

My video “The Last Subway” follows the narrative of the interaction between Pikachu and the passengers. Featuring a late night subway where a series of absurd and carnivalesque stories take place, the viewer travels between mock newscasts, the Japanese pop music video PPAP, virtual reality footage, and personal narratives; shifting between levels of reality like a video game. The work hints at how the virtual world increasingly influences human consciousness on both a macro and micro scale in our highly globalized and digitized society, as well as how the secretive micro-power quietly dominates the survival order in the Internet era.