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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.
Cast
- Ryan Trecartin as Yet
- Irina Cocimarov as Ring Jenny
- Ruth Gruca as Ring Jenny
- Madeline Poole as Ring Jenny
- Analisa Teachworth as Ring Jenny
- Tatiana Marie Valentin as Ring Jenny
- Simon Castets as French Yet
- Jesse Hoffmann as History Yet
- Lee Kyle as Circle Yet
- Jude MC as Sexy Yet
- Aaron David Ross as Sexy Yet
- Telfar Clemens as Host / Pony / Maincomment . too. hostscript
Details
- Director
- Ryan Trecartin
- Released
- December 8, 2013
- Runtime
- 33m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Studio
- Electronic Arts Intermix, Regen Projects and Andrea Rosen Gallery
- Status
- Released
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