Film Info
Electrick Children (Gratis)

Film Information

Exhibition Title	Electrick Children (Gratis)
Original Title	Electrick Children
English Title	Electrick Children
Director	Rebecca Thomas
Country
Year	2012
Format	16 mm
Colour	Color
Duration	96'

Cast:

Intérpretes / Cast: Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, Liam Aiken,
Billy Zane, Cynthia Watros

Production:

Guión / Scriptwriter: Rebecca Thomas
Fotografía / Cinematography: Mattias Troelstrup
Edición / Editing: Jennifer Lily
Producción / Producer: Jessica Caldwell, Richard Neustadter
Compañía Productora / Production Company: Live Wire Films

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Synopsis

The headline couldn’t be more sensationalist: “Fifteen year old girl gets pregnant listening to a rock cassette”. It would be hard to believe if it wasn’t for Rebecca Thomas’ film, which shows nothing, not even hints of an image that could discard the immaculate conception theory for Rachel’s pregnancy (since she’s a young Mormon girl living in a fundamentalist community in Utah). Instead, this film goes along with this idea and accompanies our confused heroine as she goes through the desert up to the city of Las Vegas, a cathedral of neon lights and slot machines, in the hopes of finding an answer for this miracle from the members of the band she was listening to. From one state to another, swinging between completely opposite worlds, and on the same body where both magic and a ruthless humanity coexist, Electrick Children builds a bridge to enable something that is rarely possible: transforming uncertainty into one of the most intense emotions cinema can convey.