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My Ride Over a Tesla

  • Running Time
    10 minutes 53 seconds
  • Genre
    Documentary
  • Language
    English
  • Completed
    August 18, 2025, United Kingdom

A 98-year-old WWII veteran, painter, and performance artist drives a tank over a Tesla—in an action organised by Led By Donkeys—and then paints the experience.

About the film

This documentary follows a remarkable 98-year-old World War II veteran, painter, and performance artist as he takes part in an unconventional action organized by Led By Donkeys: driving a tank over a Tesla. Captured on film, the event brings together political performance, personal history, and an unexpected act of creative expression.

Inspired by the viral video of the event and the painting his father subsequently created, the filmmaker revisits his own footage to tell the story from a more personal perspective. The film follows the experience beyond the spectacle itself, as the veteran transforms what happened into a work of art, connecting activism, memory, performance, and painting.

About the Director

Huw Wahl is a filmmaker and artist who has earned international recognition and showcased his award-winning work globally at film festivals such as CPH:DOX, Festival du nouveau cinéma and Open City Docs, in art galleries and museums like Centre Pompidou Metz, Royal Museums Greenwich and Union Docs, as well as in universities, social centres and at music festivals. With funding grants from organisations like The Henry Moore Foundation, Arts Council England and the RPS, he uses the medium of analogue film to explore film’s power to open experiences and ideas for communal change. His last film Wind, Tide & Oar (2024) premiered at Royal museums Greenwich, toured by sailing boat, inspired a published book, is being screened internationally, and is distributed by Tull Stories in over 80 UK cinemas. His work has been featured in magazines like Sight and Sound and The Wire, and his writing has been published in magazines, academic journals and books. He has also curated film programmes, been part of international film festival juries, and taught film & photography courses in university and community settings in the UK and abroad.

 

Official trailer

Director
Huw Wahl
Key Cast
Ken Turner