Made by taking stills from the Back to the Future trilogy, and literally cutting out various images of the time-travel vehicle. These small images were then e-animated by sticking them, one by one, to the inside window of a plane whilst in flight, and moving the camera across the image. With only the sky as a backdrop, the car appears to be crudely floating above the clouds, not belonging to any time or place. The only signifying feature is that the car is recognisable from a 1980s movie.
The piece is quite calm, contemplative, and the viewer is presented with very little information to deconstruct. The fractured soundtrack stops and starts, presenting almost suffocating, uncomfortable silences when viewing the installation. This is intended to create friction between the escapist/fantasy element of the piece and the dialectic it is intending to provoke, regarding our cultural re-use of images.
When occasionally the camera pulls back—showing the plane window, the piece reveals how it was made—it becomes almost shambolic, amateur-like home movie footage. This also occurs when you see the bird-shit marks on the window: the whole illusion collapses.
Taking the car (and the plane journey) as metaphors for being dislocated, I want to open up questions about nostalgia and the constant re-use and reappraisal of material from popular culture.
