Acclaimed American writer Dennis Cooper is famous for his novels, poems and short stories full of violent, drug-fueled queer characters and explicit fantasies of sexual violence. Permanent Green Light, co-directed with visual artist Zac Farley, looks like a friendlier version of his literary universe but preserves its inner and subversive tension: a young French man wants to blow himself up in public, without any clear reason. The film builds an idiosyncratic world of seemingly detached boys and abstract suburban areas. Cooper and Farley are more focused on their confused emotions than ideology, translating their death wish into quirky and sensual situations. It's a fascinating work on the beauty and danger of youth, and true to Copper's observation of filmmaker Robert Bresson used in his novel Try: "The thing that matters is not what actors show me but what they hide from me and, above all, what they do not suspect is in them."

在闪耀着霓虹灯光的空旷舞台上，15名不同出身背景和视野的年轻舞者伴随着令人陶醉的Techno音乐，开始了一场具有超强感染力的肢体力量舞蹈。第70届柏林电影节泰迪熊得主《如果这是爱》将舞蹈与舞者的亲密对话交织成章，讨论他们如何从个人体验中汲取经验来完成角色的融入，舞台场景模糊了虚构与现实的边界，允许人们进一步质疑亲密情感和身体吸引力之间的复杂性。