Car crashes shot in high-speed with
@sinem_sakaoglu ,
@visual_distractions , and
@pascalrossow with original music: when I started 3d printing these cars in 2022, I would give them to people to play with, and usually their first impulse was to crash them together, so I started designing new ones with pieces that would fly off during crashes. This year I’ve been working on a toy where the entire car-body separates into three mix-and-match pieces, but this video shows some early versions of the concept where only the accessories fly off. I started adding text to the cars after seeing a lot of Jenny Holzer in Europe while on tour with
@vera.sola , always envisioning the cars as half-conscious bodies coming to terms with the tragedy of being wrought from the earth, then swept up in human motives to inflict violence on it. After seeing
@bluepantheroficial earlier this year I thought a lot about the theatricality and portrayal of rivalry in lucha libre - and colorful, glittering exteriors masking the mutual urge to obliterate - and while making this edit I envisioned the cars as beloved lucha libre fighters. The cars are always finished with loads of
@rothmetalflake metal flake to make them sparkle, and repurposed pinewood derby axles make the wheels roll. Wouldn’t have been able to do this without
@vera.sola and
@themilkcartonkids ; we shot this on a day off from Vera tour in Hamburg, and it was extraordinarily fun watching Sinem, Julian and Pascal work their animation and motion-control magic in the studio to bring the little cars to life.
