Duct Tape and Dreams
What is more human than creativity? There is a cost to making art which is beautifully described by writer Dan Fox in an article titled Hidden costs. Animals don’t do it. Last time we checked, dogs and cats are not secretly hanging out in workshops creating box cars to push down San Francisco streets in acts of uninhibited joy. This film captures the human spirit and we love the sheer playfulness of it. And it may come at a cost to the artists involved but we say it’s worth it.
Year: 2022
Running time: 27 minutes
Producers: SFMOMA and Stink Studios
Directors: Ian Watt and RJ Kosineski
Director of Photography: Jan Reichle
Editor: Ian Watt
About SFMOMA's 2022 Soapbox Derby at McLaren Park:
After more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was time to bring art outside the museum’s walls. On April 10, 2022, SFMOMA revived the legendary artists’ soapbox derby — first organized by the museum in 1975 — and thousands of people lined the curving hill of McLaren Park’s Shelley Drive to watch the action unfold. Selected by invitation and an open call, more than 250 artists and fabricators collaborated on art-on-wheels to compete for thirty artist-designed trophies. The cars took numerous forms, including recognizable food items, animals, everyday objects, and tributes to our local landscape. All of them capture the spirit of radical joy that this event brought to our creative community and to the people of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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