Kinlaw rides the ride
Barbara Anastácio directs a new film for Kinlaw, with the support of the CNC (France's national centre for cinema and the moving image).
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Birth director Barbara Anastácio presents Ride the Ride, a striking new short film made in collaboration with artist and composer Kinlaw.
At the end of her shift, a factory worker is caught in an automotive wind tunnel as the machine wakes and turns its force on her body, pushing Kinlaw through escalating physical pressure in a visceral showdown between human endurance and industrial force.
Cinema began as a way of measuring the body. In the 1870s, Eadweard Muybridge broke human movement into frozen frames to see what the eye couldn’t. Ride the Ride picks up that thread and follows it to the present , where we’re measured and optimised constantly.
What’s changed is that no one forces us anymore. We drive ourselves. As Byung-Chul Han puts it in Burnout Society, we’ve become our own masters and our own slaves: we optimise endlessly and call it the pursuit of freedom. The film follows that logic to its end, a body that pushes itself all the way to its own disappearance.
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" I wanted to film the moment measurement becomes erasure, and sit inside it long enough that it stops feeling like a metaphor. Virilio said that to invent the ship is to invent the shipwreck. What, then, have we invented in building machines to measure and improve us? " said Anastacio.
Ride the Ride was shot inside a real car wind tunnel and framed in a boxed in 4:3 ratio that heightens the sense of confinement.
