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.
Ryan Trecartin
Yet
Irina Cocimarov
Ring Jenny
Analisa Teachworth
Ring Jenny
Simon Castets
French Yet
Lee Kyle
Circle Yet
Aaron David Ross
Sexy Yet
Telfar Clemens
Host / Pony / Maincomment . too. hostscript
Raul de Nieves
Host / Host. Scooter
Alison Powell
Host
Tierney Finster
Jenny.Memories
Rachel Lord
Jenny.Tanked
Chris Moukarbel
Other Boyband
Ian Isiah
Parachute
Allison Byrnes
Owna Act. Etho-nark. Anthrocam
Caitlin MacBride
Host. z
Courtney Malick
Host. Class Mates
Akeem Smith
Host / Courtsey / Maincomment. also. hostscript