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DRIVING DREAMS (DROOMRIJDERS)
A study of post-modern loneliness

2006 16mm film/Digibeta 52min

Produced by PvHFilm
Director of photography: Martijn v. Broekhuizen
Sound: Bram Meindersma
SoundMix: Huibert Boon
Written, directed, edited by Boris Gerrets

SYNOPSIS:

As long as necessity is socially dreamed, dreaming will remain a social necessity. The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep. (Guy Debord)

A woman motorist was killed by a brick, hurled down deliberately from an overpass. It happened one night somewhere on the Dutch motorway system. The incident became a looming presence my exploration of the anonymous world of the car-zone: motorways, petrol stations, parking lots and cars. These peri-urban spaces generate a particular form of emptiness and desolation - where its anonymised inhabitants are confined in a world of glass, steel, speed and aural and mental noise. These are the non-places (Marc Augé) build around the collective dream of total individuality, total mobility and total luxury.

Originaly commissioned by Ikon Television, the film’s associative narration has a beginning and end, but – as Godard used to say – not necessarily in that order.

STILLS FROM DRIVING DREAMS:

SCREENINGS:

2008
London Artists Films, Camden Arts Centre, London UK

Droomrijders | Nederlands Film Festival Dutch Film Festival, Official selection Utrecht NL

2007
TV screening Ned.2 Holland Doc IKON NL 25 jan 2007

Krakov Filmfestival Poland

Chelsea School of Art under the TrAIN programme (Transnational Art Identity and Nation Research Centre) London UK

Międzynarodowy Festiwal "Godność Praca", Poland

Milano Filmfestival Milano, Italy

2006
PREMIERE: International Documentary Festival Amsterdam IDFA, Official Selection: Highlights of the Lowlands 2006