Junebug

English

Immerse yourself in a hallucinatory soundscape where reality and imagination seamlessly blend. Theatre maker Anna Verkouteren Jansen successfully mixes theatre, cinema, podcasts, and a wee bit of Efteling. The result: an enchanting film experience where the screen simply reflects back.

June lives an secluded life in a cabin in the Deep South of the US. She spends her days in front of the television until the signal starts to falter. She flees to find a TV that works.
With the swish noise on our heels, we zip through an American dreamscape of TV psychics, takeout burritos, foggy motel rooms, and ghosts from the past.

Surround sound and cinematic storytelling immerse you in June's world of escapism, grief, Mariah Carey, and empty rooms. Lots of empty rooms. Junebug pushes reality aside and reveals what happens behind the curtains—a world invisible, yet all the more tangible.

“When I first encountered death as a child, I turned to fantasy to cope with the emptiness. Over time, escapism became my second nature. In Junebug, we watch June disappear into television, her new-age mom Barb calls TV psychic Magic Tina every week, and Tina—well, she mostly believes in transactions. I find it deeply moving how people create stories to make sense of life’s randomness.”