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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.
| Release : | 2013 |
| Rating : | 5.5 |
| Studio : | Electronic Arts Intermix, Regen Projects, Andrea Rosen Gallery, |
| Crew : | Production Design, Production Design, |
| Cast : | Ryan Trecartin Irina Cocimarov Analisa Teachworth Simon Castets Lee Kyle |
| Genre : | Comedy |
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Better Late Then Never
Admirable film.
It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
