The Chicago Underground Film Festival presents the Midwest Premiere of
Julian Goldbergerıs Trans

Exploration of youth and escape kicks off CUFFıs 99-2000 screening season

³You had to stray all the way to the Frontier section to which
³experimentalı work is banished, to find the real thing - THE BEST
INDEPENDENT FILM AT SUNDANCE.²
       -Gavin Smith, Film Comment

³Julian Goldbergerıs depiction of a 16-year-old Florida kid with nowhere to
run is THE 400 BLOWS OF THE 90ıs.²
       -Amy Taubin, Village Voice

³Without a doubt, IT IS ONE THE BEST DEBUT NARRATIVE FEATURES THAT IıVE SEEN
IN A LONG TIME, Its solid improvisational scenes are enhanced by stylish,
yet experimental camerawork and soundtrack.²
       -Eugene Hernandez, indieWIRE

On November 19th, The Chicago Underground Film Festival, in cooperation with
the Film and Video Department of Columbia College, will present the Midwest
premiere of Trans, Julian Goldbergerıs mesmerizing debut feature. The film
chronicles the experiences of a teenage boy from his escape from a Florida
detention center until his eventual capture. Trans won The Readerıs Jury
Prize for Best Feature at the Berlin Film Festivalıs International Forum of
New Cinema and was an official selection at Sundance, Toronto and New
Directors/New Films. Trans will screen at 7 and 8:30pm at Columbia Collegeıs
Ferguson Hall, 600 South Michigan Ave. Admission is $6.00, $3.00 with valid
Columbia College ID. Free to CUFF.ORG members.

Trans, follows the story of Ryan Kazinsky, a 16-year-old who escapes from a
chain gang at a juvenile detention center in Southern Florida. After
negotiating his way through alligator infested swamps, majestic woods draped
with Spanish moss and redneck inquisitions, Ryan hitches a ride back to his
hometown where he hides from the police, reckons with hostile gang members
and has an uneasy reunion with his brother who is unsure whether to berate
or hug him. Inevitably, Ryanıs own frailty is his undoing - but not before
securing one last definitive moment of solace.

Combining lush, atmospheric imagery with daringly expressive camerawork,
Trans defies the generic conventions of ³prison break² and ³road² movies.
Instead, director Julian Goldberger rigorously sticks with his anti-hero (an
extraordinary performance from first-time actor Ryan Daugherty) and his
inexorable journey, mental and physical - often surreal but always credible.

Trans launches The Chicago Underground Film Festivalıs new season of
underground film screenings, organized to ensure the presence of
uncompromising film and video in Chicago. In the last year the festival has
presented a night of experimental mischief with tENTATIVELY a cONVIENIENCE,
a special screening of Dave Sarno, Seth Henrickson and Rob Shieldıs award
winning documentary Goreville USA, a book launch and screening with
underground chronicler Jack Sargeant, and the midwest premiere of digital
superstar Todd Verowıs Shucking The Curve. ³The Chicago Underground Film
Festival will continue its mission to promote new visions in film and video
into the next millenium² says Festival Director Bryan Wendorf, ³We will
remain proudly defiant as we continue to bring you the best in
rule-breaking, cutting-edge and sometimes subversive cinema being created
today.²


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