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 Date
December 8, 2013Runtime
33 minGenres
ComedyDirected by
Ryan TrecartinWritten by
Ryan TrecartinLanguage
EnglishBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
Ryan Trecartin
YetIrina Cocimarov
Ring JennyAnalisa Teachworth
Ring JennySimon Castets
French YetLee Kyle
Circle YetAaron David Ross
Sexy YetTelfar Clemens
Host / Pony / Maincomment . too. hostscriptRaul de Nieves
Host / Host. ScooterAlison Powell
HostTierney Finster
Jenny.MemoriesRachel Lord
Jenny.TankedChris Moukarbel
Other BoybandIan Isiah
ParachuteAllison Byrnes
Owna Act. Etho-nark. AnthrocamCaitlin MacBride
Host. zCourtney Malick
Host. Class MatesAkeem Smith
Host / Courtsey / Maincomment. also. hostscript