A distinctive film premieres in Boston this Friday, with tales of the painstaking transition from adolescence into teenage-hood – as told by puppets. Its presentation comes courtesy of Baltimore-based Human Being Productions.

Ben Levin, guitarist for Boston-based avant-garde rock group Bent Knee, approached Human Being Productions co-founder Greg Bowen with an idea: He wanted to capture the raw experience of “a group of kids going from being kids to being teenagers, and kind of destroying all their relationships and building new ones,” Bowen said.

“His writing has gone far and wide – space monsters, the afterlife, other things,” Bowen said of Levin, a past collaborator who’s also his former high school classmate. “But this was pulled from personal experience when he was a kid.”

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