Giants Being Lonely
Bobby (Jack Irving) is the star pitcher for a high school baseball team named the Giants. Success in the sport is his ticket to a future beyond his small town in North Carolina. Meanwhile, his teammate Adam (Ben Irving, who has the good looks of a young Heath Ledger) is having problems at home, and he has a crush on a rich girl named Caroline (Lily Gavin), who happens to like both him and Bobby. The mythical prom is approaching ... The film shows teens not only playing baseball but also studying, swimming in a lake, going on dates—this is a world we know well from American TV series for teens. In the artist Grear Patterson’s debut film, however, the portrayal of adolescent life is more genuine. We see the protagonists’ boredom and loneliness; there’s domestic violence, as well as intergenerational romance. Beautifully captured by the cinematographer Hunter Zimny and wrapped in romantic music, the film re-creates the bittersweet mood of growing up in America’s Deep South.
Grear Patterson
Grear Patterson is an American artist who makes paintings, installations, and films. He was born in 1988 in the town of Redding, Connecticut, where he grew up in a home with an artistic tradition. He received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, which is also where he had his first solo exhibition, Nowhere Fast (Gloria Naftali Project Space, 2012). In 2013, he had an acting role in Gia Coppola’s Palo Alto. He made his full-length debut at the festival in Venice last year with Giants Being Lonely. He lives in the Bronx and in Barcelona.
Filmography
2019 Samotność Gigantów / Giants Being Lonely
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