film/video
Teslaism: Economics at the End of the End of the Future

Single-channel video, 30’, 2022

P5308 Bahar Noorizadeh 2

Teslaism is a 3rd person-racing musical game featuring Elon Musk and his self-driving car/lover and life coach, as they drive towards a shareholder meeting in a post-gamified Berlin landscape. The film takes the newly built Gigafactory in Berlin as a prism to describe the emergence of Teslaism (succeeding Post-Fordism) as an upgrade to the system of production and consumption predicated on advanced storytelling, financial worldbuilding, and imagineering “the look of the future.”

Teslaism was originally commissioned for Tresor 31: Techno, Berlin, and the Great Freedom.

Soundtrack:
Conic sections - XOR Gate (brainchild of Gerald Donald, one half of Drexciya and Dopplereffekt)
Helena Hauff - Humanoid Fruit (Unreleased)
GRV Tr 4 - TV Victor

All tracks are courtesy of Tresor Records and the artists.