What happens when you look at yourself in a puddle of introspection?For filmmaker duo Bill and Turner Ross, it’s first and foremost about turning the camera inwards to look out, thanks to the cinéma vérité style.
The Ross brothers, whose previous feature films include festival favorites “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets” and “Contemporary Color,” described “Gasoline Rainbow” as a “punk rock” edition of “The Wizard of Oz’s” montage of “Easy Rider” in a director’s film. declaration.
“It’s not a documentary, but it’s very sincere,” Ross said. “We found that if you give other people a mask, they share more than if we just asked them to be themselves. “
Administrators created scenarios in which an impromptu self-portrait of a generation could flourish.
Turner Ross told IndieWire at the film’s premiere on Vegreat: “The documentary network – the non-fiction network – has been great with us. But the ways in which we operate are not part of the code of how journalistic documentaries work. This is an artistic endeavor. We make movies. For us, it’s art. To get to the fairest place, it was obligatory to deal with other righteous people in righteous situations, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be built.
“Gasoline Rainbow” will be released in select theaters on May 10 and will be available on Mubi on May 31. Check out the trailer below and read the IndieWire review here.