This project examines how a tightly regulated routine and constant media exposure structured twenty-one days of hotel quarantine during the 2022 Shanghai lockdown. Confined to a single room, the daily cycle was defined by three delivered meals, habitual movement, and the continuous looping of a single song. Contact with the outside world was mediated entirely through screens, where specific keywords, "lockdown," "Shanghai," and "food shortage", recurred with mechanical frequency.

The work transforms these materials, news reports, rationed meals, and music, into a visual and sonic experiment on repetition and isolation. By mapping how often specific actions and images recur, the project treats repetition as a primary analytical tool rather than background noise. The resulting film compresses twenty-one days of routine into a condensed sequence, allowing lived patterns to dictate the structural logic of the moving image.

Ultimately, the project reconstructs the psychological space of confinement: the waiting, the subtle anxieties, and the contradictory state of being simultaneously connected and isolated. Rather than re-counting the lockdown as an event, the work follows the material traces that shaped the experience of time, rendering the invisible structures of a digital and physical enclosure visible.