cacacuclu (car cancel culture club)

were afraid to ask)" at /rosa, heidelberger str. 28, 12059 berlin. it is an educational infotainment movie collage made out of more than 100 snippets from news, advertisement, movies, private videos, documentaries, art videos and so on found on youtube. they all deal with one of the most celebrated products of mass production, a symbol of individual freedom and the most deadly mode of transport – cars. a driving license turns teenagers into adults, cars are painted by famous artists to turn them into objects of high culture and the car industry is for some countries part of the national identity. on the other hand approximately 1,19 million people die each year as a result of road traffic crashes¹. just to put it in relations: in 2019 about 600.000 deaths were attributable to drug use² and in 2023 122.000 people died because of wars². unlike drugs and war, cars are usually not seen as a serious danger and something we should get rid of. they seem to be untouchable (even graffiti artists respect their cleanness) and a german nazi "kraft durch freude" car could even become a western hippie icon – it's somehow fascinating. to keep the image alive the car industry spend 12 billion dollar in 2023 for advertising – only in the us⁴. cacacuclu spend some time to change this image into somtehing which needs trigger warnings, but also into a thrilling movie with breathtaking action scenes, deep emotions and interesting facts. it's also a piece of media art, dealing with the permanent stream of short moving images and a result of an image science research.

you find more cacacuclu content and can watch some trailer of the movie at https://botnik.net/cacacuclu in addition mimi kritik will release her "cacacuclu e.p." on https://botnik.net/mk this evening.

¹ https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/road-traffic-injuries ² https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/opioid-overdose ³ https://www.prio.org/news/3532 ⁴ https://www.bia.com/wp-content/uploads/BIA-Automotive-Ad-Report-2024-Nov.-23.pdf