Fast (2026)

<div>Rob Tregenza, who was praised by Jean-Luc Godard, who called Tregenza's work "remarkable and at times astonishing, that is, softly imbued with the marvelous," 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 the city of Baltimore. His subsequent films—including Inside/Out (1997) (produced by Godard), Gavagai (2016), and The Fishing Place (2024)—constitute a body of work defined less by narrative than by the physical weight of recorded reality. Largely self-financed and operating outside the festival-circuit economy, he remains one of the few American filmmakers whose practice has more in common with Straub-Huillet or Chantal Akerman than with anything produced in the American independent mainstream.</div><div><br></div><div>Tregenza’s sixth feature, Fast, returns to the American South—shot on location in Lexington and Richmond, Virginia—after his Norwegian excursions in Gavagai and The Fishing Place. “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, 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).</div>DramaPT1H36MPG-132026-08-30USen
Madison Pankey
Mia Grichendler
Nicholas X. Parsons
Rob Tregenza
Rob Tregenza
Birgit Tregenza
Danny Caporaletti
Fast (2026)"Fast (2026)"

Showtimes

August 30, 1:00 pm

September 3, 7:45 pm

Pickford Film Center