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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lindsay Poulton

The Guardian documentary: film-maker Jess Kohl on banger racing and ‘subverting expectations of masculinity’

He’s a natural leader … Wayne Boland works on his car in A Mouthful of Petrol.
He’s a natural leader … Wayne Boland works on his car in A Mouthful of Petrol. Photograph: Jess Kohl/The Guardian

Wayne is a fixture on the banger circuit – a rough style of racing in self-built cars. Now that his son Jai-Dee is nearly 13, his debut “full contact” race is finally in view.

Jess Kohl’s new short film immerses us into the boisterous world at the same time as revealing a tender relationship between a father and a son. This cinematic coming-of-age story poignantly reframes expectations of masculinity in a tough sport.

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