Trans

Sixteen year-old Ryan Kazinski runs away from a young offenders' institution. Over a couple of days he moves like a wanted criminal among swamps and small towns in the middle of nowhere. Julian Goldberger calls Trans a 'meditation over childhood'. It's not autobiographical, but in an experimental and improvised way he has recreated impressions and feelings from his own adolescence in Florida's swamps. At the start there was a manuscript, but this was torn to pieces and the film grew from improvisations and impulses from the director and debutante Ryan Daugherty. Sometimes the locals had to come up with the dialogue and the spontaneity and movement was made easier by the fact that the film team consisted of only six people. Trans can be divided into two photographically different parts, captivity and liberty. The scenes from the institution are filmed with a static camera. Ryan is standing in line, part of the mass, overlooked by the prison officer. He is sitting captured in the white tiled cell, overlooked by the prison camera. Prison life is tedious, monotonous, closed-up, impersonal. The camera is only observing, it takes no part in the action, doesn't come in, is kept away. One day when working on road cleaning, Ryan and his mates get the chance to run away. This is where the handheld camera picks up. The images are flexible and spontaneous, just like Ryan's movements and the camera doesn't observe anymore, it discovers. Details and surroundings seem exciting, important, different, seen in a new way. The nostalgic voice-over monologue turns into spoken dialogue when he, in liberty, focuses on the present.

Premiärstatus
Skandinavisk premiär: Medverkande
Ryan Daugherty, Justin Lakes, Jon Daugherty: Producent
Michael Robinson: Manus
Julian Goldberger: Foto
Jesse Rosen: Musik
Fat Mama and her Trans World Orchestra: Talat språk
English