I Rodentia

Excerpt from the video collaboration by Daniela Kostova and Olivia Robinson

"I Rodentia" is a project inspired by the music composition "Albany Rhythms" by Moravec. The video offers an unusual perspective of our capital city seen from an animal's point of view. It is produced with the help of a wireless spy camera attached to the nose of a giant remote control rat. Through the "cyber-rat," the high tech of digital video meets the low tech of analogue machines. Borrowing the aesthetics from early silent films such as Chaplin's "Modern Times," this movie depicts our modern time moving to the circular and sometimes frenetic rhythms in Moravec's work.