Ryan Trecartin Movies
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K-CoreaINC. K (section a)
K-CoreaINC. K (section a)MOVIE
The video revolves around an unending "meeting" - a busy, aimless meeting that goes in circles to evade a traditional narrative arc. The meeting is es...
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Sibling Topics (Section A)
Sibling Topics (Section A)MOVIE
Trecartin returns to his conception of family-as-business-enterprise, casting parent figures as managers and executives on one end of the spectrum, es...
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P.opular S.ky (section-ish)
P.opular S.ky (section-ish)MOVIE
In P.opular S.ky (section ish),a character played by Trecartin informs us that she wants ‘to live in a world where narration is the devil’. The abili...
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Mark Trade
Mark TradeMOVIE
Shot in 2013 - In 'honor, of cause fake news - less gravity here - don't bird watch with a gun - remember your dreams before they remember you : the s...
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Comma Boat
Comma BoatMOVIE
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 oscilla...
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Plot Front
Plot FrontMOVIE
A delirious movie installed inside a ghostly barn made with prefabricated materials. The oscillatory movement of the rocking chairs on which visitors...
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Item Falls
Item FallsMOVIE
In Item Falls, we are peaking. We start out at a casting call, but before long we're firmly in the grip of hallucination, shedding our anxieties and e...
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Wayne's World
Wayne's WorldMOVIE
Trecartin and his collaborator/co-star Lizzie Fitch ponder the messages delivered by the most banal forms of mass media and pop culture in their own u...
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Temp Stop
Temp StopMOVIE
Temp Stop, as the title implies, has a disjunctive quality that separates it from the other parts of Re'Search Wait'S. As if emanating from the baseme...
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Ready
ReadyMOVIE
In Ready, Wait, played by Trecartin, is introduced as the eponymous figure of the series. Wait waits. He forsakes a "career" in favor of a "job," the...
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The Re'Search (Re'Search Wait'S)
The Re'Search (Re'Search Wait'S)MOVIE
The movie is actual market research collected by Wait for Y-Ready. It doubles as the site of Wait's vacation, as well as echoed versions of scenarios...
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Center Jenny
Center JennyMOVIE
The film focuses on the life of Jenny who has, according to many of the other characters, become too “left-of-center” while pursuing her interests.
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Belly's
Belly'sMOVIE
This rare collection of Ryan Trecartin's early short films, produced as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, showcase the artist's maturati...
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Valentine's Day Girl
Valentine's Day GirlMOVIE
Trecartin crafts a fantastical narrative about a girl whose obsessive personal utopia is disrupted. Trecartin's collaborator, Lizzie Fitch, plays a gi...
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I-Be Area
I-Be AreaMOVIE
Dazzling and raucous, Ryan Trecartin's first feature-length video takes cues from chat rooms, social networking web sites, YouTube, John Waters, and P...
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What's The Love Making Babies For
What's The Love Making Babies ForMOVIE
Trecartin's extraordinary digital manipulations reach a new level as he speculates in vivid animation about reproduction, sexuality, and contemporary...
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Yo! A Romantic Comedy
Yo! A Romantic ComedyMOVIE
In Yo! A Romantic Comedy, Trecartin borrows clichés from hip-hop culture and genre films to craft a dark, dream-like narrative that veers from comic m...
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(Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me.)
(Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me.)MOVIE
Trecartin describes (Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me.) as a "narrative video short that takes place inside and outside of an e-mail." Trecartin's intense...
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Spirit Riser
Spirit RiserMOVIE
Two sisters are thrown out of their isolation and onto opposite coasts of America by a terrifying cosmic entity. On their quest to reunite they discov...
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Permission Streak
Permission StreakMOVIE
Permission Streak opens with a question: “Can you tell the difference between a camera and a camera?” Shown in a sculptural theater that combines aspe...