Rob Tregenza Takes a Journey on the Phantom Road in the Exclusive Trailer for Fast.

      After a 19-year hiatus between the Jean-Luc Godard-produced Inside/Out and 2016’s Gavagai, followed by another decade until his next project, Rob Tregenza is experiencing a creative surge. Our lengthy conversation that covered his career helped inspire his fifth feature, The Fishing Place—a noteworthy film that featured what some might consider the best cinematography of the previous year, achieved by Tregenza himself. Just over a year later, he’s back with Fast, a drama centered around an aspiring F1 driver (Madison Pankey) and her enigmatic struggles between past and present. In anticipation of the world premiere's one-week run at MoMA starting August 12 (produced by our own Nick Newman), we are excited to exclusively unveil the trailer edited by Tregenza, accompanied by Carlos Chafin’s rendition of Bach’s “Komm, süßer Tod, komm selge Ruh (Come, sweet death, come, blessed rest).”

      Tregenza comments: “In this project, I again recognized that the essence of the plan sequence and the basis of the POV derives from the Phantom Ride. Both demand adventurous journeys and an edit.”

      Here's MoMA's synopsis: “Rob Tregenza’s sixth feature returns to the American South—filmed in Lexington and Richmond, Virginia—after his explorations in Norway in Gavagai (2016) and The Fishing Place (2025). For Sterling (Madison Pankey), a modern-day Alice, the graveyard Lotus she redeems becomes a totem, a vivid phenomenon allowing her to traverse time on a phantom road. It resembles a Ford but is never a DeLorean. A Southern woman laden with historical weight and concealed truths, Sterling travels back to her rural roots, navigating through shadows that connect the realms of the living and the dead. Aspiring to be an F1 driver, Sterling must accelerate aggressively, confronting all imagined or tangible tunnels.”

      Check out the preview and poster below: