Driver Brother(s) takes inspiration from Karimah Asahdu’s Machine Boys and the Okada riders of Lagos to explore the lives of taxi drivers in New York and London, cities with idiosyncratic and iconic taxi culture. Featuring the film Driver Brother by Kenneth Tam and Sleepdust: Uber Drivers Singing Lullabies by Ceyda Oskay, these filmmakers use their poetic lenses and artistic interventions to address the highs and lows of being a taxi driver. All films conjure philosophical responses from the drivers as they question their dreams, memories of childhood, their regrets and debts, and ultimately life and death.

Driver Brother by Kenneth Tam, 2024, 26 minutes
Commissioned by ALL ARTS, Driver Brother is an experimental documentary that follows a group of immigrant cab drivers and poetically presents their financial struggle to acquire and maintain ownership of NYC taxi medallions.

Sleepdust: Uber Drivers Singing Lullabies by Ceyda Oskay, 2019, 9 minutes
The work includes audio files of Uber drivers in London singing the artist lullabies during March 2019, when she broke her leg and had to take Ubers to the Migration Museum, as she was the resident artist there during their exhibition.