Site of Passage

  • 7'
  • United States
  • 2022

The sleepover is a classic trope in movies about teenagers, usually presented as a girls-only ritual. Kerr transforms this traditional 'rite of passage' into a 'site of passage': a plotless collection of unusual actions, utterances and gestures, closer to avant-garde dance than psychological profiling, performed by the young cast in a fresh and natural way. Incantations, commands, mime games, tableaux of bodies in suspended states: adolescence has never looked so hermetic and mysterious.

 

Cristina Álvarez López

  • 7'
  • United States
  • 2022
Director
Lucy Kerr
Premiere
Dutch Premiere
Country of production
United States
Year
2022
Festival Edition
IFFR 2023
Length
7'
Medium
DCP
Language
English
Producer
Lucy Kerr
Sales
Lucy Kerr
Screenplay
Lucy Kerr
Cinematography
Alexey Kurbatov
Editor
Lucy Kerr
Production Design
Tim Nicholas
Sound Design
Andrew Siedenburg
Cast
Hannah Lee, Loren Hansen, Reese Taylor, Madelin Wilson, Rachel Withers
Director
Lucy Kerr
Premiere
Dutch Premiere
Country of production
United States
Year
2022
Festival Edition
IFFR 2023
Length
7'
Medium
DCP
Language
English
Producer
Lucy Kerr
Sales
Lucy Kerr
Screenplay
Lucy Kerr
Cinematography
Alexey Kurbatov
Editor
Lucy Kerr
Production Design
Tim Nicholas
Sound Design
Andrew Siedenburg
Cast
Hannah Lee, Loren Hansen, Reese Taylor, Madelin Wilson, Rachel Withers