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The Ostrich Has Run Away

Shui Yuan take a biting look at Chinese society, at the ostrich’s blind rush to freedom and at the social media frenzy surrounding it. The music video backs it up with bold, striking, black-and-white graphics and collage, showing an age of information overload — but always returning to that image of the running ostrich at the center. (IRL This incident took place in Anqing back in 2021, when an ostrich escaped its enclosure and ran through the city. It traveled over 12 miles and became a social media sensation in China, only to die tragically of exhaustion.