Lost Boys

Ten years after the success of their documentary Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland, Joonas, Jani and Antti celebrate Jani's release from jail with a trip to Southeast Asia, where they spiral into old habits during a bottomless bender of sex and drugs. While Joonas returns home, Jani and Antti remain in Cambodia, smashing bar girls and slamming Ya Ba and Ice, before disappearing. Joonas returns to Bangkok and Phnom Penh, scouring his footage and claustrophobic hotel rooms for signs of his missing friends. "But the truth of what happened cannot be seen from the outside," and this investigation looks beyond leads and leans inwards. Lost Boys builds eerie atmosphere and captures the ghost—of a missing person, moment, high—by locating the presence and absence of his partners in crime and addiction itself, in potent visual language. Joonas scans and re-scans rooms, so that a room-within-a-room is recorded with an infinity mirror effect—where hotel rooms become prison cells and a camera lens becomes a hole that can never be filled. Angie Driscoll