PAVILION

Max is a quiet fifteen-year-old who lives with his mother in Northern New York State. When summer comes, he goes to stay with his father in Arizona. The change is drastic: leaving behind the forests and uncontaminated nature of his mother’s home, he finds himself plunged into the arid landscapes that surround the infinite multitude of houses and yards of his new habitat. This discovery of a new world coincides with new friendships, in a many-faceted, summertime portrait of a group of adolescents.

“The endless summer twilights which take on a heroic sense of aimlessness, everything open to them, their ‘schedule’ a blank page, and the downtime that all inevitably becomes, the incredible thrill and yet monumental bore of it all. We arrived at the core plot from East to West. Known to unknown. Comfort to confusion. It was the simplest of situations and it gave us the opportunity to then drift through the secret dimensions of these opposing landscapes and the kids who inhabit them.”