In the spring of 2018, the artist Maria Petschnig befriended Marc Thompson who at that time had been living in his car in Brooklyn for more than a year, while holding a day job. He had been parked in her neighborhood to frequent the shower at the gym and Petschnig kept running into him. Marc grew up in NYC, is a former convict, and his self-imposed homelessness has both psychological as well as economical reasons. The artist started to record his life and struggle, his thoughts, routines, etc. over the course of a year. In the fall, his car broke down and from then on, he would sleep on subway trains.
Uncomfortably Comfortable is an experimental video (portrait) that addresses the mounting NYC housing crisis, incarceration and trauma, racism, but also talks about friendship and life on the fringes of society.
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