This project is a speculative video work that uses the visual language of the video game Minecraft to explore the entangled crises of climate change, labor, and global capitalism. Inspired by accounts from Vietnamese farmers facing intensifying heat and environmental degradation, the narrative centers not on heroes, but on those rendered invisible by the systems that define our world.

By leveraging the mechanics and aesthetics of a game engine—typically associated with escapism—I aim to subvert expectations and invite critical reflection. Minecraft’s blocky visuals and survival-based gameplay create a dissonant, almost childlike frame through which to examine harsh realities: extraction, exploitation, and the precarity of life in the margins.

The piece collages political soundbites—declarations of perpeptual capitalist growth—against images of fossil-fueled destruction, drawing attention to the contradictions at the heart of industrial capitalism. Through glitch, repetition, and rupture, the work underscores a central tension: capitalism depends on perpetual growth, but that growth is incompatible with planetary survival.