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GERMAN CINEMA NOW! Motorcity [In-Person Only]
Wed May 25: 7.30pm PDT
Thu May 26: 7.30pm PDT
Sliding scale ticketing: $525
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Arthur Summereder
Austria
2022
1h 25m
Series - GERMAN CINEMA NOW!
About
GERMAN CINEMA NOW!, a celebration of the bold, new, and fantastic in German and transnational cinema, is a monthly film series presented by Goethe Pop Up Seattle. In 2022, GCN! explores states of (apparent) stasis, sameness, and standstill, inviting viewers to look closely at the countless dynamic processes that are always underway, just beneath the surface.
About the film:
(Arthur Summereder, Austria, 2022, 85 min, in English & German with English subtitles)
** North American premiere! **
There is a bright line connecting techno music, city planning, the War on Drugs, Detroit politics, and Manifest Destiny. That line is the expensive, hazardous, wasteful, endlessly fascinating and extremely loud sport of drag racing. Here to make that case is Arthur Summereders Motorcity, celebrating its North American premiere as part of German Cinema Now!
Before the run comes the burnout, intones Summereder. The filmmaker provides calm commentary throughout in his soft Austrian accent, alongside Baroque organ music as well as tracks from the legendary producer Mad Mike Banks, of iconic Detroit techno label Underground Resistance. Summereder had not planned on making a film about drag racing. Like many of the racing teams he befriends, he simply became obsessed by the interplay of danger, engineering, camaraderie, consumption, and speed.
In addition to a reading of drag racings origins and an anthropological look at its rituals, his film brings a European aestheticand terrific audioto the sport. The four-second standard run starts with a galvanic gathering of force and, once the brake is released, ends almost instantly. It allows one very nearly to be in two places at once. Summereder shows us weirdly captivating motor builds and harrowing crashes. He acquaints us with lovable gearheads like the color-blind mechanic, who has difficulty with wires, and Kari Anne Beebe, the Fastest Woman in Michigan, and interviews Detroit royalty like the citys Chief of Police and Mike Banksboth tremendous drag fans who are agitating for a Wayne County drag racing renaissance. This intelligent film wears its smarts lightly, balancing its spirit of inquiry with due respect for raw automotive power. Motorcity searches its own gaze for cultural elitism, while taking its subject entirely seriously. Can one, finally, be in two places at once? As Summereders artful, agile picture demonstrates, the answer is a matter of perspective. (Martin Schwartz)
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