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