Comma Boat
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.
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Cast
Ryan Trecartin
as Yet
Analisa Teachworth
as Ring Jenny
Caitlin MacBride
as Host. z
Courtney Malick
as Host. Class Mates
Irina Cocimarov
as Ring Jenny
Raul de Nieves
as Host / Host. Scooter
Chris Moukarbel
as Other Boyband
Telfar Clemens
as Host / Pony / Maincomment . too. hostscript
Allison Byrnes
as Owna Act. Etho-nark. Anthrocam
Simon Castets
as French Yet
Ian Isiah
as Parachute
Aaron David Ross
as Sexy Yet
Tierney Finster
as Jenny.Memories
Akeem Smith
as Host / Courtsey / Maincomment. also. hostscript
Alison Powell
as Host
Rachel Lord
as Jenny.Tanked
Lee Kyle
as Circle Yet
Crew
Ryan Trecartin
Production Design, Producer, Wardrobe Master, Makeup & Hair, Sound Designer, Writer, Editor, Director
Ian Isiah
Makeup & Hair, Sound Designer
Telfar Clemens
Sound Designer
Sweet P. Vaughn
Makeup & Hair
M. Blash
Camera Operator
Akeem Smith
Sound Designer
Lizzie Fitch
Camera Operator, Script, Production Design, Producer, Wardrobe Master, Makeup & Hair, Editorial Production Assistant, Sound Designer
Seth Bogart
Makeup & Hair