Motorcity

Ein Gemälde, das die Eroberung des Westens zeigt. Eine kritische Befragung des Filmemachers am Detroit Airport nach dem Zweck seiner Reise. Qualmende Reifen, schnelle Wagen, leerstehende Industrieruinen. Summereders Film ist – trotz visuell eindrucksvoller Einblicke in Leben und Leidenschaft einer Amateur-Racer-Gruppe – keine konventionelle Doku-Variante von THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: Vielmehr transzendiert er sein Thema fast schon essayistisch mittels Voice-over, Archivmaterial und kontrastreicher Montage. So stellen sich komplexe Fragen nach US-Mythologie, Vergangenheit und Gegenwart der einstigen Autohauptstadt Detroit und kulturellen Differenzen zwischen Europa und den USA. (Oliver Stangl)

For MOTORCITY, the choice of a documentary process is, of course, apparent from its subject, drag racing. How else would it be possible to capture both the fascination and also what needs to be explained about this sport, which since the 1950s has a place in the popular imagination in the U.S.. The film poses a field of questions that is accordingly vast, ranging from the fundamental (what is the challenge of moving a quarter of a mile in a few seconds, unleashing forces that can hardly be controlled?) to the historically determined (what does drag racing mean in a city like Detroit, which is likewise the cradle of the American automobile industry and Fordism?) to the mythological. (Vrääth Öhner)

Director's Biography
Arthur Summereder (*1983, Vienna) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Harun Farocki and at Villa Arson in Nizza, and is currently a PhD Researcher at the University of Arts Linz. A visual artist, filmmaker and editor, he won the 2019 Diagonale Prize for Best Artistic Editing of a Documentary for DIE TAGE WIE DAS JAHR (AT 2018, directed by Othmar Schmiderer).
Filmographie Regie (Auswahl)
Motorcity (2021, doc) - The French Road, Detroit MI (2015, short; CE'16)
Local Artists 2021
Arthur Summereder
Österreich 2021
color
85 Minuten
Englisch / Deutsch
OmdU
Drehbuch Arthur Summereder
Kamera Arthur Summereder
Schnitt Arthur Summereder
Musik Cornelius Schwehr, Mike Banks
Produzent*innen Arthur Summereder
Weltvertrieb
sixpackfilm
Trailer
Website
Weltpremiere
Weltpremiere
Crossing Europe 2021 / Diagonale 2021