Emotions in Metal • 40 pgs, QR coded film, poster & CD
40 page color zine with introduction by artist. Printed QR code gives access to full streamable film online. A four fold 16”x20” movie poster printed on 80# cover recycled paper. CD containing all nine original motion picture soundtracks.
“… a witty and evocative video pop opera, a form that combines words, music, and images into miniature graphical essays on cars as metaphors, in a manner pleasantly akin to Robert Ashley’s video opera Perfect Lives.” - David Finkelstein (Film International)
The truly futuristic modes of travel we envisioned have stalled, and the ancient, at times surreal, four wheel roll of metallic ants persists. Perhaps I should be content with plug-in cars, ride share apps and what seems to be a near future of diverless vehicles. For better or worse, the car as we know it survives and creating this work was my way of making amends to that fact. - Tommy Becker
Screenings: The 58th Ann Arbor Film Festival, 27th Chicago Underground FF, 37th Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Athens International Film & Video Festival, Experiments in Cinema, Visions in the Nunnery 2020, 22nd Annual Moviate Underground Film Festival, That One Film Festival, Other Cinema’s Optronica (performance)
40 page color zine with introduction by artist. Printed QR code gives access to full streamable film online. A four fold 16”x20” movie poster printed on 80# cover recycled paper. CD containing all nine original motion picture soundtracks.
“… a witty and evocative video pop opera, a form that combines words, music, and images into miniature graphical essays on cars as metaphors, in a manner pleasantly akin to Robert Ashley’s video opera Perfect Lives.” - David Finkelstein (Film International)
The truly futuristic modes of travel we envisioned have stalled, and the ancient, at times surreal, four wheel roll of metallic ants persists. Perhaps I should be content with plug-in cars, ride share apps and what seems to be a near future of diverless vehicles. For better or worse, the car as we know it survives and creating this work was my way of making amends to that fact. - Tommy Becker
Screenings: The 58th Ann Arbor Film Festival, 27th Chicago Underground FF, 37th Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Athens International Film & Video Festival, Experiments in Cinema, Visions in the Nunnery 2020, 22nd Annual Moviate Underground Film Festival, That One Film Festival, Other Cinema’s Optronica (performance)
40 page color zine with introduction by artist. Printed QR code gives access to full streamable film online. A four fold 16”x20” movie poster printed on 80# cover recycled paper. CD containing all nine original motion picture soundtracks.
“… a witty and evocative video pop opera, a form that combines words, music, and images into miniature graphical essays on cars as metaphors, in a manner pleasantly akin to Robert Ashley’s video opera Perfect Lives.” - David Finkelstein (Film International)
The truly futuristic modes of travel we envisioned have stalled, and the ancient, at times surreal, four wheel roll of metallic ants persists. Perhaps I should be content with plug-in cars, ride share apps and what seems to be a near future of diverless vehicles. For better or worse, the car as we know it survives and creating this work was my way of making amends to that fact. - Tommy Becker
Screenings: The 58th Ann Arbor Film Festival, 27th Chicago Underground FF, 37th Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Athens International Film & Video Festival, Experiments in Cinema, Visions in the Nunnery 2020, 22nd Annual Moviate Underground Film Festival, That One Film Festival, Other Cinema’s Optronica (performance)