Traffic jams are national heritage. A daily source of annoyance. But also the place where – undisturbed alone in our car – we can be properly angry and shout at others. FI FI FILE plays with this fact, but also with caricatures, discomfort and stereotypes. And with the question: aren’t we just getting very close to each other in traffic jams?

FI FI FILE is a visual performance in which players, music and a living scenography meet in the middle of an eternal traffic jam. Two players are stuck on the motorway: in their cars, but also in their heads and bodies. FI FI FILE is about the drudgery and potency that boredom brings, about repressed desires, anger, and violence. The car is an empty space that allows at most a kind of individual pleasure. In that safe environment, we are allowed to shout good riddance at the other, but what are we really angry about?

FI FI FILE plays with caricatures, stereotyping, alienation, humour in discomfort. The everyday, the banal, pop culture, vehicular languages, actions are the breeding ground for a visual universe where dream and reality meet in the transit zone of a car. In an associative tick-tock world. A highway, a conflict on the track. An attempt to embrace ourselves and the Other.

In the traffic jam, we accept loss. Are there other, non-human ways to get very close? Inspired by an underground life, FI FI FILE explores the potential of this togetherness.