SYNOPSIS

Spot does not leave his apartment building. He hangs out with neighbors and sometimes he skateboards. Since his mother ended up in a mental hospital, his only family is his best friend. Except that they too are growing estranged. Still, going home is not an option. When nothing better is in sight, he wastes time with a mentally challenged neighbor that adopted a pig in his apartment. Soon he realizes that he is his only friend. His escapism is reaching its expiration date.

INTENTION

I grew up around skateboarders and that experience has deeply influenced me. In truth, it is sort of haunting me. They as a unity are unique, very lethargic and impervious, as well as amorphous and free. It is a cocoon of some sort, a safe haven. I have never been a part of something like it since. I still cannot fully grasp these experiences, especially the feeling that overwhelmed me. It is as elusive as were the people - never anchored, always floating.

So is Spot. His time is at a standstill, without a clear beginning or ending, vacillating like his decisions and actions. Nor here, nor there, everything and nothing is happening, as if his life is progressing but he is not moving. I am familiar with that state, but he is living it. I find his perplexing nature an inexhaustible source of inspiration.

Spot is an effort to find understanding for what I yet have not been able to, but maybe even more my desperate need to feel all of it over again.