Matteo Ruggiero / sxilence
Documentation still from I Have Become an SUV.

short film / 2024 / 16:59

I Have Become an SUV

Inside Grand Theft Auto V, a player refuses the life the code assigned him. He reaches for autonomy and the game keeps returning him to the same collision, the same SUV.

I Have Become an SUV takes place in the videogame Grand Theft Auto V. An anonymous protagonist, self-called degenerate, refuses the way of life determined by the game's internal code.

We observe the rewriting of rules and the creation of autonomy. He tries to interpret his past through personal, constructed myths. If only cars could fly again. Now they are merely predestined for collision and destruction. The code is a timed fork bomb.

The passive, prescribed player undergoes a transformation into an active player. Activity, however, returns to the same routine roles. Once an NPC, always an NPC and forever SUV.

If only cars could fly again.

The code is a timed fork bomb.

Same shit, different day.

Once an NPC, always an NPC and forever SUV.

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