When people talk about architecture and urban planning, I often hear them remark “the city is an organism”. If one day, the city could really nurture its own life and vitality, allowing it to breathe freely, move, and even grow and reproduce– what kind of magical scene would we experience?

“Spatial Bodies” is a virtual reality experimental film by AUJIK studio. In this bizarre short film, the city of Osaka no longer looks familiar. The original steel skyscrapers have been transformed into invertebrate-like organisms, neglecting the principles of physic as they twist and wriggle in mid-air. Several of them even appear like octopus tentacles, shaking and dancing across the sky.

AUJIK studio has defined this experimental film as being “mysterious nature/ tech cult”, and has given the movie this description: “Spatial Bodies depicts the cityscape and its architecture as living and self-replicating organisms, which have their own ability to domesticate and cultivate. The large field of concrete and vegetation swings between discipline and chaos.” Excluding the video’s tribute to the Japanese construction industry in the 1950s, its extremely chaotic and eschatological sense of an urban scene fulfills the magical image people have of modern life.