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Special Features: Q&A with filmmaker Rob Tregenza

A filmmaker whose work has been praised by Jean-Luc Godard as “remarkable and at times astonishing, that is, softly imbued with the marvelous,” Rob Tregenza has worked at the leading edge of American independent cinema since his 1988 debut TALKING TO STRANGERS, a film built entirely from extended single-take sequences shot in nine locations across Baltimore. His sixth feature returns to the American South — shot on location in Lexington and Richmond, Virginia — after his Norwegian excursions in GAVAGAI (2016) and THE FISHING PLACE (2024). “For Sterling (Madison Pankey), a sort of present-day Alice, the graveyard Lotus she redeems becomes a totem, a saturated phenomenon permitting her to move freely in time on a phantom road. It is a sort of Ford but never a DeLorean. A Southern woman with a fair deal of historical baggage and deep secrets, Sterling journeys back to her rural home, [as] the Lotus takes her through the shadow of the valley into the adjoining worlds of the living and the dead. Desiring to become an F1 driver, Sterling must go fast/hard, against/through all tunnels imagined or concrete.” – Rob Tregenza. (Note adapted from MoMA.) DIR/SCR/PROD Rob Tregenza; PROD Danny Caporaletti, Birgit Tregenza. U.S., 2026, color/b&w, 96 min. NOT RATED

“[Rob] Tregenza is a sort of counter-Ophüls: a rhapsodist of the unworldly [...] Tregenza is after lyricism without cynicism, bitterness and sweetness without bittersweetness, emotions unmixed and irony-free.” — Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Run Time: 96 Minutes

Opening Date: Saturday, November 21, 2026

Genre: Drama

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