Ryan Trecartin Movies

  • 2009
    Sibling Topics (Section A)

    Sibling Topics (Section A)

    Sibling Topics (Section A)

    102009HD

    Trecartin returns to his conception of family-as-business-enterprise, casting parent figures as managers and executives on one end of the spectrum, es...

    Sibling Topics (Section A)
  • 2009
    K-CoreaINC. K (section a)

    K-CoreaINC. K (section a)

    K-CoreaINC. K (section a)

    02009HD

    The video revolves around an unending "meeting" - a busy, aimless meeting that goes in circles to evade a traditional narrative arc. The meeting is es...

    K-CoreaINC. K (section a)
  • 2010
    P.opular S.ky (section-ish)

    P.opular S.ky (section-ish)

    P.opular S.ky (section-ish)

    02010HD

    In P.opular S.ky (section ish),a character played by Trecartin informs us that she wants ‘to live in a world where narration is the devil’. The abili...

    P.opular S.ky (section-ish)
  • 2016
    Mark Trade

    Mark Trade

    Mark Trade

    02016HD

    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 s...

    Mark Trade
  • 2013
    Comma Boat

    Comma Boat

    Comma Boat

    02013HD

    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 oscilla...

    Comma Boat
  • 2019
    Plot Front

    Plot Front

    Plot Front

    02019HD

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

    Plot Front
  • 2013
    Item Falls

    Item Falls

    Item Falls

    02013HD

    In Item Falls, we are peaking. We start out at a casting call, but before long we're firmly in the grip of hallucination, shedding our anxieties and e...

    Item Falls
  • 2003
    Wayne's World

    Wayne's World

    Wayne's World

    02003HD

    Trecartin and his collaborator/co-star Lizzie Fitch ponder the messages delivered by the most banal forms of mass media and pop culture in their own u...

    Wayne's World
  • 2010
    Ready

    Ready

    Ready

    02010HD

    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...

    Ready
  • 2010
    Temp Stop

    Temp Stop

    Temp Stop

    62010HD

    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 baseme...

    Temp Stop
  • 2010
    The Re'Search (Re'Search Wait'S)

    The Re'Search (Re'Search Wait'S)

    The Re'Search (Re'Search Wait'S)

    52010HD

    The movie is actual market research collected by Wait for Y-Ready. It doubles as the site of Wait's vacation, as well as echoed versions of scenarios...

    The Re'Search (Re'Search Wait'S)
  • 2013
    Center Jenny

    Center Jenny

    Center Jenny

    72013HD

    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 interests.

    Center Jenny
  • 2001
    Belly's

    Belly's

    Belly's

    02001HD

    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 maturati...

    Belly's
  • 2001
    Valentine's Day Girl

    Valentine's Day Girl

    Valentine's Day Girl

    02001HD

    Trecartin crafts a fantastical narrative about a girl whose obsessive personal utopia is disrupted. Trecartin's collaborator, Lizzie Fitch, plays a gi...

    Valentine's Day Girl
  • 2007
    I-Be Area

    I-Be Area

    I-Be Area

    5.82007HD

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

    I-Be Area
  • 2003
    What's The Love Making Babies For

    What's The Love Making Babies For

    What's The Love Making Babies For

    02003HD

    Trecartin's extraordinary digital manipulations reach a new level as he speculates in vivid animation about reproduction, sexuality, and contemporary...

    What's The Love Making Babies For
  • 2002
    Yo! A Romantic Comedy

    Yo! A Romantic Comedy

    Yo! A Romantic Comedy

    02002HD

    In Yo! A Romantic Comedy, Trecartin borrows clichés from hip-hop culture and genre films to craft a dark, dream-like narrative that veers from comic m...

    Yo! A Romantic Comedy
  • 2006
    (Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me.)

    (Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me.)

    (Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me.)

    4.32006HD

    Trecartin describes (Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me.) as a "narrative video short that takes place inside and outside of an e-mail." Trecartin's intense...

    (Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me.)
  • 2024
    Spirit Riser

    Spirit Riser

    Spirit Riser

    02024HD

    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 discov...

    Spirit Riser
  • 2013
    Junior War

    Junior War

    Junior War

    02013HD

    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, the...

    Junior War