The film is an imaginative connection between the maker’s narrative that was fixated in a certain authorship over the text and realisation that the text was part of the of the collective since the beginning. Based on the similarities, the maker, or the collective, re-constructs a speculative narrative that blends the reality of human and more-than-human with visuals from these encounters. A fictional flea accidents with acid? A dead flea skin on the soil in which atoms vibrate but never touch? Or the flea being deaf but vibration-sensitive? A non-linear narrative that hovers between documentary and fiction, reality and distortion. It gives the spectator an invitation to empathise what it would be like to be a flea with free associations, through a visual journey that jumps from one topic the next in a non-chronical order.

This mini-documentary was produced during the workshop “Speculative Nematode” which took place in ITU Faculty of Architecture and had later been exhibited there between 14th to 25th of September, 2022.