

“You can force your story's shape, but the color will always bloom upstream.”
A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
Director
Writer
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$100,000
Revenue
$444,098
Wife
Shane Carruth on the Visual Language of "Upstream Color"
Featurette
Children Underground follows the story of five street children, aged eight to sixteen who live in a subway station in Bucharest, Romania. The street kids are encountered daily by commuting adults, who pass them by in the station as they starve, swindle, and steal, all while searching desperately for a fresh can of paint to get high with.