Gasoline Rainbow

With high school in the rearview, five teenagers from small-town Oregon decide to embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted tail light, their mission is to make it to a place they’ve never been—the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away. Their plan, in full: “Fuck it.”

By van, boat, train, and foot, their improvised odyssey takes them through desert wilderness, industrial backwaters, and city streets. Along the way, they encounter outsiders from the fringes of the American West and discover that the contours of their lives will be set by trails they blaze themselves. They are forgotten kids from a forgotten town, but they have their freedom and they have each other, hurtling toward an unknowable future—and The Party at the End of the World.

The Ross Brothers are an American filmmaking team whose work has brought them renown as some of the most innovative independent filmmakers working today, with a style all their own and always evolving - pushing the art of presenting uninhibited portraits of and journeys through places, with all the complicated, humanistic, and lyrical truth that that entails. They are the recipients of numerous grants, awards and accolades and their work has been featured at museums and festivals throughout the world. In 2023, their body of work was celebrated with a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, Paris. They are members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences.

FILMOGRAPHY:

2023 Gasoline Rainbow
2020 Blood Nose, Empty Pockets
2017 Contemporary Color
2015 Western
2012 Tchoupitoulas
2009 45365