‘Gasoline Rainbow’ Clip: Teenagers Find Magic In Trek Across The States In Mubi Adventure Pic From ‘Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets’ Duo

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first clip from Gasoline Rainbow, the first narrative feature from the acclaimed indie duo of Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross (Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets), which is soon to world premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

Set to hit U.S. theaters via Mubi next year, Gasoline Rainbow is a formally experimental work is reminiscent of Andrea Arnold’s Cannes prize winner American Honey. Written, produced, shot and directed by the Ross Brothers, it follows five teenagers from small-town Oregon who, with high school in the rearview, decide to embark on one last adventure. Piling into a van with a busted taillight, their mission is to make it to a place they’ve never been — the Pacific coast, five hundred miles away. Their plan, in full: “F**k it.”

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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.

Starring newcomers Tony Abuerto, Micah Bunch, Nichole Dukes, Nathaly Garcia and Makai Garza, the film began percolating for the Rosses during Covid lockdown. Said the visionaries behind it in a statement setting up the clip, “This scene almost didn’t happen – chasing the sunset after a brutally long day of filming in the van, the sky went electric with color. Racing towards a vantage point, the kids jumped out of the van and ran into the open. We’d found ourselves on the exact same stretch of lonesome road that begins and ends ‘My Own Private Idaho’. It was magical. They stayed and pontificated until the light was gone, and then we left. One brief moment along the line.”

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Added the duo with regard to their forthcoming premiere, “Venice is a new frontier for us, and we’re thrilled to make it our point of embarkation.”

Produced by the Department of Motion Pictures and Mubi, in association with XTR, Gasoline Rainbow is having international sales handled by The Match Factory. Michael Gottwald (Beasts of the Southern Wild) and Carlos Zozaya (We’re All Going to the World’s Fair) produced, with Josh Penn exec producing for Department of Motion Pictures, alongside Kathryn Everett, Bryn Mooser and Justin Lacob for XTR. View the new clip from the film above.