A Video Feed Melts Away in Nino Filiu's Lackadaisical
The free browser piece, first shown at A MAZE.'s Berlin gallery in March, degrades short-form clips until only the doomscroll trance is left.
Nino Filiu has put Lackadaisical, an interactive installation about the short-form video feed, online as a free browser piece at lackadaisical.netlify.app. In the walkthrough, Filiu calls it his "most honest work" and describes a feed that "melts in your hand," where "every time you scroll, pause, or fast-forward, you destroy what you're watching." The interface copies a vertical video app, with like and comment counts down the side and a block of caption text along the bottom, and asks the viewer to press play to start. It's a wild ride.
Nino Filiu walks through Lackadaisical. Play it at lackadaisical.netlify.app.
As the viewer scrolls, the clips break down into glitch: what is left is the swiping, not the videos. The experience emotionally is roughly the same as actual bottomless scrolling; context completely disappears narratively, so why not abandon the visuals as well?
The piece came out of late nights on his phone. "I wanted to give a shape to the mental state I experience while doomscrolling," Filiu says in the walkthrough. "At this point, I was not even consuming content. I was just excited by stimulus." So the content gradually disappears, and what remains is the stimulation: the colors, the glitches and the feedback of touching and scrolling. Filiu, whose earlier games take on despair, lost faith and the end of the world, calls Lackadaisical "the closest I've got to talking about myself through an art installation."
Filiu, a French maker of experimental art games, works often with broken video. Filiu also made Supermosh, a free browser-based editor for datamoshing, the glitch effect produced by hacking how compressed video plays its frames. Lackadaisical points that interest in broken video at the feed itself. The piece premiered on March 26, 2026, at the Shop-Gallery of A MAZE., the Berlin games and playful media festival, as part of Filiu's solo show Punt Kick.
Earlier this month Filiu chaired the game jam at Octobre Numérique, the digital arts festival in Arles. Killscreen most recently covered A MAZE. when it opened applications for its Playful Obscura residency.
For more reading, see Lackadaisical itself, Killscreen's A MAZE. / Berlin 2027: May 5–8, with 200 early-bird tickets and Supermosh.
Lackadaisical in hand. Frames from the artist's walkthrough.
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