By Tova O’Brien
Automorphosis: it's one of the films showing at this year's Cinema Showcase moving through the county's main centres.
It looks at car artists or as they're dubbed in this documentary – Cartists.
Cars are said to reveal the personalities of their owners; that's certainly the case in Automorphosis – the sequel to 1992 documentary Wild Wheels.
Director Harrod Blank is also an avid art car artist – or ‘cartist’ – he began creating his first art car when he was just 16 years old.
“By the time I was in my 30s my friends and my parents were really wondering when I was going to grow up,” Blank says.
Many of the artists in the film are collectors who've taken their obsessions one step further.
And it's not just confined to cars; Harry Sperl's Hamburger Trike is the cherry on the top of his collection of more than 500 hamburgers.
“Each hamburger is categorised and is in the computer; what's the diameter, what material's it made out of, is it a bacon cheese burger or just a plain hamburger or a cheese burger,” says Sperl.
A lot of these people admit they're exhibitionists and love the attention their vehicles afford them, but there's no shortage of variety when it comes to explaining how they came to be car artists.
“We're not smiling enough and I didn't know that we were going to help fill that void and you really don't know how much is needed,” says ***. “It's a simple thing, but to me it's important work.”
The film takes a good look at some weird and wonderful cars, but ultimately it's about what drives the people behind the wheel.
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