CAR - short description
“Car” is a visual and sensory experience in which the projection of an experimental short film, I co-created with director, musician and artist Tim Seger, explores the relationship between space and rhythm coexisting in the eyes of the protagonist, a 7-year-old boy in the back seat of the car his mother drives. The film is accompanied live by a trio of performers who recreate the sounds of the film's journey on an installation reminiscent of car parts via judiciously installed metal parts.
CAR - Art film Objectives
We wanted to bring a 20-minute car journey to the screen with CAR. The important thing for us is the perspective of the boy sitting in the back seat. The entire story of the film is told from his perspective. The camera does not leave the car. We see what the boy sees when he looks out of the window or at his mother, driving. At certain moments, we want to magnify, exaggerate and translate it into an imaginative visual language. Details such as the indicators, the radio, or even the cables along the highway are enlarged and take up the entire space of the screen.
In his mother's perception, too, it is all about the small details the emotions into action, such as the way a person operates the radio or looks in the rear-view mirror or looks in the rear-view mirror. Here we want to find correspondingly detailed close-ups and avoid classic portrait or shot-countershot shots.
Basically, this is about a subjective, personal visual language. We want to open apertures, soft optics and sometimes long exposure times to create a personal, dreamlike approach for the boy's perspective. Forms, colours and rhythms should become increasingly important in the course of the film than depicting real conditions. In the course of the car journey, this subjectivity is further intensified. At the beginning of the film, we are still in a relatively clear forms and recognisable structures. The further the film progresses, and the pulse of the car and the boys calms down, we also want to transition visually into a dreamlike, abstract world until the film finally dissolves into an impressionistic painting of shapes and colours.
