This piece explores the quiet discomfort of emotional self-indulgence, focusing on the persistence of remaining in states of sadness long after they cease to serve us. Slow and unsettling, the film features snails consuming viscous, slimy food, their movements repetitive and slightly grotesque. Paired with an uneasy soundtrack composed by Jakub Rutkowski, the work resists aestheticisation and instead leans into the heaviness of stagnation. It questions the cultural and personal tendency to romanticise melancholy, suggesting that such emotions can become a choice, even a performance. The piece lingers in the space where feeling meets fixation, and where suffering becomes self-sustaining.
the melancholy
