In the new work 'Mantis City',Tobias Bernstrup adopts the language and low-tech special FX techniques of early science fiction movies such as; Godzilla, Mothra and King Kong. Set in a 1:1000 scale model over Shanghai's futuristic skyline we see two giant praying mantids fighting each other and climbing the Oriental Pearl and Jin Mao towers. The dramatic lighting of the video recalls an atmosphere from Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927) and Carol Reed's 'The Third Man' (1949). Like in several of Bernstrup's earlier works, he raises questions about physical representation, how reality mimics fiction and vice versa in a world where the border between fiction and reality is getting more and more blurred.