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“I still owe you gas money from the time we totaled the car”

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In late 2022, I was in car crash on my way to spending Thanksgiving on the Connecticut coast. I just recently started working on 16mm films shot out of driving cars by night and was obsessed of slowing the video way down to highlight the idea of being in-between, at no place at all. The car was totaled and needed to be towed, blood and glass mixing in the footwell with coffee and tea picked up some Dunkin moments before. Nobody got seriously injured – but the shock stayed.

 

Not having a car anymore, the day after I took the Amtrak up to New York City. In the train I was finally alone, reliving the moment of crashing again and again, being in no place at all just in my head.

 

The video projection is a re-visiting of the train-route; this time driving up the coastline from NYC. Going back to feel it, see it again. The visuals are mirrored to be align with driving down the coast, it’s staged. It’s January and not November. Every 10th frame is original 16mm material, the 9 frames in between are artificial. The artificial onesemerge as a transition process from still frame to the next, from one place to the other.

 

The score is an original work connecting the materiality of the grainy film with texture focused shoegaze guitars, mediating on the Cloakroom riff of Time Well – the song playing at the moment of crashing.

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Artist Bio:

Matthis Frickhoeffer works on the intersection of conceptual art and critical thought. His work explores themes of the hyper-online, poststructuralism and a fascination for long car rides – exhibited internationally with recent shows at the Bonn Museum of Modern Art and the Falckenberg Collection. Frickhoeffer studied at the Fine Art Academy of Hamburg and the School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He is currently living in-between Dallas and Hamburg in Germany, always online and never home.

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DIMENSIONS: 28min video projection, 4:3 ratio

stereo 16mm shot on Bolex H16

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Not for sale

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