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Torus:
These Cars
Do Not Exist

Club Program
Theme:
RAVE CAPITALISM

Den Haag-based DJ, producer and artist Joeri Woudstra aka Torus contributes to our Web Festival with a multimedia piece that features his music with visual work by himself and artist Mark Prendergast. “These Cars Do Not Exist” contains new solo material, loops and sketches that Torus has been working on since “The Flash”, his latest record with DJ Lostboi released in January 2020.

“While I was working on the music in quarantine, I found myself stuck in my house, left with aimless creative exercises like filming a whole bunch of things I would see from my rooftop. After a little while I found some patterns in the footage and I reached out to artist Mark Prendergast, who I shot and directed the video with, to discuss some of the footage. He told me he had also been recording birds for the last couple of weeks  and we assembled our material and looked for a narrative. These Cars Do Not Exist starts from a POV human perspective with a shot I took at 5:30 AM at sunrise in The Hague during one of the wildest seas of this year. It then slowly shifts to a more passive voyeurist perspective in which the nature that remains untouched by current affairs becomes the active subjects in the video.”