Comma Boat
In Comma Boat, we're stuck in a mock-authoritarian fantasy--a power trip. The film centers around a director-character played by Trecartin who oscillates between feelings of omnipotence and self-doubt. As if a post-human, post-gendered reincarnation of the Fellini character in 8 ½, the director gloats and frets about professional and ethical transgressions. "I know I lied to get ahead," he admits at one point. "I've made up so many different alphabets just to get ahead in my field." The director is fancier now, but the fear nags that he might be "repeating" himself "like a dumb soldier ova and ova and ova and ova." The meta-connection to the artist's own career, while obvious, is also a decoy. All art, at some level, is about the artist. Here, reflexivity is the surface level, providing a decodable veneer that encases something more unsettling and complex. Single-channel and 3-channel versions.
Year: 2013
Genre: Comedy
Studio: Electronic Arts Intermix, Regen Projects, Andrea Rosen Gallery
Director: Ryan Trecartin
Cast: Ryan Trecartin, Irina Cocimarov, Ruth Gruca, Madeline Poole, Analisa Teachworth, Tatiana Marie Valentin
Crew: Cat Krudy (Co-Producer), Lola Sinreich (Co-Producer), Alisa Tager (Co-Producer), Akeem Smith (Sound Designer), Murphy Maxwell (Makeup & Hair), Anthony Valdez (Camera Operator)
Runtime: 33 minutes
Release: Dec 08, 2013
IMDb: 0.00/10 by 0 users
Popularity: 1
Country: United States of America
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword :
Similar Movies
Recomendation Movies
