Feb 14—17, 2018
Torrey Pines
CLYDE PETERSEN / Seattle
A queer coming-of-age adventure told through stop-motion animation and a live pop-rock band.
It’s an animated film. It’s a live pop-rock band. It’s a queer, coming-of-age road trip like none other. It’s Torrey Pines.
Raised by a schizophrenic single mother who was consumed by conspiracy theories and family dysfunction, award-winning filmmaker Clyde Petersen’s adolescent years unfolded like a surreal and confusing dream. Based on a true story, Torrey Pines tells a trans-queer-punk, coming-of-age story, rich with ‘90s pop-culture references—everything from Star Trek to Nintendo. Seattle’s own Your Heart Breaks performs the quirky, catchy, and moving score, featuring cellist Lori Goldston, a one time member of such beloved bands such as Nirvana and Mirah.
Info
Venue
Emerson Paramount Center
Jackie Liebergott Black Box
559 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111
Dates
Feb 14, 2018 - Feb 17, 2018
Details
60 minutes, no intermission
Tickets $60
Ages 13+
Parental Advisory: This film contains some nudity of a non-sexual nature.
“A voluptuously visual and auditory experience”
“Torrey Pines is intended to provoke strong gut responses and linger in the heart, all the better to gain some slight sense of what its young protagonist is going through, and it does so by reminding us of a time of turmoil in body and mind that we’ve all experienced.”
A “storybook come to life, and accompanied by a four-piece band and a sound-effects artist, Torrey Pines possesses sensory immediacy while summoning memories of puberty, that fabled time when your body and your feelings conspire to mount a sustained, humiliating, and disconcerting freakout.”
— WBUR
“Moving and often hilarious”
“For anyone who enjoys imaginative animation, quirky (and painful) storytelling, and great live music.”
— Theater Mirror
“View this gem the way it was meant to be seen – larger than life and accompanied by a live score!”
— The Huffington Post
“I’ve never seen the horror of being misgendered captured on film so evocatively as in Torrey Pines.”
— City Arts
“Tender and fantastical, Torrey Pines delves into difficult memories and transforms them into something relatable.”
— Flagpole
“A masterful use of incredibly simple and friendly materials (which is politically important), paper cutouts and Post-Its, symbols and icons, a visual shorthand that becomes open but never, never loses its distinctive self.”
— The Stranger
“Executed with a healthy heap of wit and psychedelia…[it’s] a deftly crafted entry in the small cinematic lineage of ‘ambient’ films. “
— Seattle Weekly
“Possibly the most unique and striking performance I’ve seen.
The entire production is like a loose electrical wire, sparking and twitching in the street…
HIGHLY recommended”
— Michael Feeney, Audience Member Blog Comment