2014; 16mm film; black & white; silent; 11 minutes. In the film I document the fabrication of the car and view it as a shell or vessel for a body as well as ideologies. The car stands as a housing for a body, an abstraction of my body, and then it's documented, racing through a space, the neighborhood where I live.
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