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Driving Force

Driving Force journeys through the banality of ecocide, circling metaphorical parallels in the capitalist treatment of nature, workers, and women. Recurring stress dreams about natural disasters and a loss of control conjure up questions about reason, rugged individualism, conquest, and the apocalyptic madness of greed. With equal amounts of sarcasm and unflinching vulnerability, the narrator ponders impending cataclysm and whether to bring children into a world seemingly marked for destruction. Painterly compositions reveal the frenzy of this moment ostensibly at the end of human civilization and use metaphor to examine the forces behind such a culmination. Amid the hopelessness, paranoia, and despair emerges an absurd beauty and sense of hope that submits to whatever comes next.

  • Joanie Wind
    Director
    Girls Grow Up Drawing Horses, This One Weird Trick
  • Joanie Wind
    Writer
  • Joanie Wind
    Producer
  • Joanie Wind
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    17 minutes 17 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 7, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Joanie Wind

Joanie Wind (USA) moved from Arizona to Michigan to study painting and later interdisciplinary art at Eastern Michigan University, earning a BFA (2010) and an MFA (2015). She is now based in Metro Detroit where she teaches art at the College for Creative Studies. Her work situates the viewer in a space of vague familiarity that is disrupted from the joy and pleasure promised, plummeting them into a dystopian space of anxiety and despair. Nostalgic imagery from Americana (the desert landscapes of the Southwest, the sprawling farmlands of the Midwest, and the aesthetics of meme culture and smartphone interfaces) melts together in a metaphorical performance of conquest, alienation, escapism, consumerism, and existential dread. She has exhibited video art in numerous film festivals locally and internationally. Her video Girls Grow Up Drawing Horses won Best Experimental Film at Santiago Indie Film Awards in Chile, Audience Award at Video Art Festival Turku in Finland, Experimental Special Mention in Porto Femme International Film Festival in Portugal, and Best Editing at the 5th Chhatrapati Shivaji Film Festival in Pune, India. Her video This One Weird Trick won a Gold Remi Award at Worldfest Houston in Texas and Best Avant Garde Film at Drunken Film Fest Oakland in California. Her most recent video, Driving Force, won Honorable Mention at the Tatras International Film Festival in Slovakia, was a finalist at the Babul Eco Film Festival in India, won Best Experimental at the Paradise Film Festival in Hungary, was a Semi-Finalist at the Arthouse Film Festival, and won the Artist Short Film award at the Mannheim Arts and Film Festival in Germany earlier this year.

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