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The cats in Oya’s oeuvre are rarely performing. In the most famous of the lost 2021 collection, Untitled (Shinjuku Rain) , the camera holds a static wide shot of a wet cardboard box for four minutes and twelve seconds. For the first three minutes, nothing moves except the rain. Then, without fanfare, the tip of a grey tail flicks once from behind the box. The video ends thirty seconds later. There is no zoom, no music sting, no text overlay. This is cat cinema as pure durée, reminiscent of the structuralist films of Michael Snow or Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman . Oya was less interested in the cat as a personality than in the cat as a phenomenon—a disruption of urban geometry.
While previous years of cat videos relied on music, the 2021 Oya catalog leaned heavily into Pure Sound . The crackle of kibble in a ceramic bowl, the thump of a cat jumping off a fridge, the squeak of a mouse toy. Viewers reported using these videos to fall asleep or to fight panic attacks.
Perhaps the most defining characteristic of Makoto Oya’s 2021 output is its intentional fragility. He did not upload to a verified channel; he used anonymous file-hosting sites and disappearing link services. By late 2022, the majority of the 2021 collection had been deleted by the host platforms for inactivity. Only fragments remain—a low-resolution re-upload on a Japanese BBS forum, a single GIF of the grey tail saved to a Pinterest board.
The cats in Oya’s oeuvre are rarely performing. In the most famous of the lost 2021 collection, Untitled (Shinjuku Rain) , the camera holds a static wide shot of a wet cardboard box for four minutes and twelve seconds. For the first three minutes, nothing moves except the rain. Then, without fanfare, the tip of a grey tail flicks once from behind the box. The video ends thirty seconds later. There is no zoom, no music sting, no text overlay. This is cat cinema as pure durée, reminiscent of the structuralist films of Michael Snow or Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman . Oya was less interested in the cat as a personality than in the cat as a phenomenon—a disruption of urban geometry.
While previous years of cat videos relied on music, the 2021 Oya catalog leaned heavily into Pure Sound . The crackle of kibble in a ceramic bowl, the thump of a cat jumping off a fridge, the squeak of a mouse toy. Viewers reported using these videos to fall asleep or to fight panic attacks. Makoto Oya Cat Videos 2021
Perhaps the most defining characteristic of Makoto Oya’s 2021 output is its intentional fragility. He did not upload to a verified channel; he used anonymous file-hosting sites and disappearing link services. By late 2022, the majority of the 2021 collection had been deleted by the host platforms for inactivity. Only fragments remain—a low-resolution re-upload on a Japanese BBS forum, a single GIF of the grey tail saved to a Pinterest board. The cats in Oya’s oeuvre are rarely performing