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Pyromaniacs and Las Vegas magicians. Unless you're one of the above, you may find the thought of fire tends more towards debilitating fear rather than point of fascination. But a fire, once extinguished, doesn't necessarily go away...
In Rhys Graham's Firestorm, the teenagers of a small town explain the emotional aftermath of a fire that has destroyed much of their suburbia, in a subtle series of observations that describe first love, break ups, and teenage garage bands in the same breath as chronicling the destruction of a whole township through fire.
Graham's film is fascinating in that it strives to describe the collective emotional state of a community of teenagers, and to symbolically draw allusion between the destructive forces of nature and adolescence, and how quickly things can be lost, whether they be your worldly possessions or the slag girlfriend you use to think was hot before she stole money from your Mum's purse to get a Def Leppard tattoo.
Firestorm marks an artfully accomplished documentary that describes loss and growth in ways that feel new and unfamiliar.
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