Comma Boat

Comma Boat — Plot

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, 2013
• Runtime
• 33 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Ryan Trecartin

Comma Boat — Cast

Ryan Trecartin Yet Irina Cocimarov Ring Jenny

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Ruth Gruca Ring Jenny

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Madeline Poole Ring Jenny Analisa Teachworth Ring Jenny

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Tatiana Marie Valentin Ring Jenny Simon Castets French Yet

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Jesse Hoffmann History Yet