Is it possible to long for a past that isn’t your own? To yearn for a future that others imagine for themselves? Drinking and Driving portrays a specific time and place, in a story that springs from a deeply personal place. But Avalon Fast and Jillian Frank find a universality in it all, speaking to an entire generation that, in the face of a dire present, looks to the past as the only way to reclaim a supposedly lost future (and turn it into many more). The simultaneity of temporalities is encapsulated in the stasis of summer: a nostalgia for past times surfaces in characters who feel stuck and, at the same time, cannot stop moving. The “poor images” that Hito Steyerl defends find a place in the aesthetics of a digital yesteryear (the film is shot entirely on a DV cam), evoking the everyday haze of youth, where moments of intimacy blend with seemingly endless fun. A confusion of stories, faces, and bodies, which the camera approaches as a whole, making us part of a paradise that seems as distant as it is within reach. The place where we can maybe have one last drink together, before it all disappears. DANIELA URZOLA