{"data":{"id":"33189","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":33189,"topgoose_id":12565,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":33189,"title":"T.S.O.Y.W.","display_artist_text":"Amy Granat, Drew Heitzler","display_date":"2007","accession_number":"2008.18","dimensions":null,"medium":"Two-screen 16mm film installation, color, sound, 200 min., transferred to video","department":"collection","classification":"Installations","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from Saralee G. Fine","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmy Granat, Drew Heitzler, \u003cem\u003eT.S.O.Y.W.\u003c/em\u003e, 2007. Two-screen 16mm film installation, color, sound, 200 min., transferred to video. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Saralee G. Fine 2008.18. © 2008 Amy Granat and Drew Heitzler\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eFilmmakers Amy Granat and Drew Heitzler collaborated to make \u003ci\u003eT.S.O.Y.W.\u003c/i\u003e, a two-part film based on Wolfgang von Goethe’s loosely autobiographic, tragic novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Sorrows of Young Werther \u003c/i\u003e(1774). Following the style of the American road movie \u003ci\u003eEasy Rider\u003c/i\u003e (1969), \u003ci\u003eT.S.O.Y.W. \u003c/i\u003echronicles a dysfunctional love story between a man and his motorcycle while representing what the artists call America’s “wartime malaise.” Werther, portrayed by artist Skylar Haskard, steals a friend’s Harley-Davidson to cruise the desert, eventually arriving at art historical destinations including Robert Smithson’s \u003ci\u003eSpiral Jetty\u003c/i\u003e, Walter de Maria’s \u003ci\u003eThe Lightning Field\u003c/i\u003e, and James Turrell’s \u003ci\u003eRoden Crater\u003c/i\u003e. Granat and Heitzler’s variations on the theme—which they edited from 16-millmeter footage that they shot simultaneously on identical Bolex cameras—are screened as dual projections. Although \u003ci\u003eT.S.O.Y.W\u003c/i\u003e., was originally presented as a silent film, it was screened at the 2008 Whitney Biennial with a soundtrack recorded by Granat, artist Jutta Koether, and musician/writer Stefan Tcherepnin.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"A person in a yellow jacket stands facing a snowy shoreline while a biker adjusts gear by a motorcycle.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T16:59:26.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:00:46.632-05:00","images":[{"id":109003,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/33189/2008_18_vw1_still.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"11194","type":"artist"},{"id":"11195","type":"artist"}]}}}}