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
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2022
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 7'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
