Ryan Trecartin Filmes
- 2016

placebo pets
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For the tenth anniversary of W's November art issue, supermodels Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid are inducted into the futuristic world of Lizzie Fitch...
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- 2013

Center Jenny
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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...
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- 2019

Plot Front
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A delirious movie installed inside a ghostly barn made with prefabricated materials. The oscillatory movement of the rocking chairs on which...
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- 2010

Temp Stop
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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...
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- 2024

Spirit Riser
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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...
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- 2016

Permission Streak
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Permission Streak opens with a question: “Can you tell the difference between a camera and a camera?” Shown in a sculptural theater that...
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- 2010

Ready
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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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- 2016

Mark Trade
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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...
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- 2007

I-Be Area
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Dazzling and raucous, Ryan Trecartin's first feature-length video takes cues from chat rooms, social networking web sites, YouTube, John Waters, and...
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- 2013

Junior War
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In Junior War, a throng of highschoolers congregate at night for a party in the woods sometime in the year 2000. A band plays, the kids get drunk,...
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- 2003

What's The Love Making Babies For
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Trecartin's extraordinary digital manipulations reach a new level as he speculates in vivid animation about reproduction, sexuality, and contemporary...
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- 2013

Comma Boat
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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...
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- 2005

A Family Finds Entertainment
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A Family Finds Entertainment chronicles the story of mixed up teenager Skippy and his adventures in ‘coming out’. In this over the top...
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- 2016

Temple Time
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Shot in a former Masonic temple in Los Angeles – a five-story warren of large, cavernous rooms akin to a windowless convention center –...
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- 2001

Kitchen Girl
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In Kitchen Girl, Trecartin's frequent collaborator Lizzie Fitch throws herself into a state of total hysteria, portraying a girl who takes the...
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- 2009

Sibling Topics (Section A)
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Trecartin returns to his conception of family-as-business-enterprise, casting parent figures as managers and executives on one end of the spectrum,...
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- 2001

Belly's
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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...
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- 2015

Yielders Path
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The video displays Fitch and Trecartin's signature style of ludicrous cut-scenes and ironic hyperbole. “Yielders Path” also features...
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- 2001

Valentine's Day Girl
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Trecartin crafts a fantastical narrative about a girl whose obsessive personal utopia is disrupted. Trecartin's collaborator, Lizzie Fitch, plays a...
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- 2002

Love Part One
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A short film showcasing the artist’s maturation in experimental video which would culminate in his debut feature film – “A Family...
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