Ryan Trecartin Movies
- 2009
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...
- 2009
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...
- 2010
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...
- 2016
Mark Trade
Mark Trade02016HD
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...
- 2013
Comma Boat
Comma Boat02013HD
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...
- 2019
Plot Front
Plot Front02019HD
A delirious movie installed inside a ghostly barn made with prefabricated materials. The oscillatory movement of the rocking chairs on which visitors...
- 2013
Item Falls
Item Falls02013HD
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...
- 2003
Wayne's World
Wayne's World02003HD
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...
- 2010
Ready
Ready02010HD
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...
- 2010
Temp Stop
Temp Stop62010HD
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...
- 2010
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...
- 2013
Center Jenny
Center Jenny72013HD
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.
- 2001
Belly's
Belly's02001HD
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...
- 2001
Valentine's Day Girl
Valentine's Day Girl02001HD
Trecartin crafts a fantastical narrative about a girl whose obsessive personal utopia is disrupted. Trecartin's collaborator, Lizzie Fitch, plays a gi...
- 2007
I-Be Area
I-Be Area5.82007HD
Dazzling and raucous, Ryan Trecartin's first feature-length video takes cues from chat rooms, social networking web sites, YouTube, John Waters, and P...
- 2003
What's The Love Making Babies For
What's The Love Making Babies For02003HD
Trecartin's extraordinary digital manipulations reach a new level as he speculates in vivid animation about reproduction, sexuality, and contemporary...
- 2002
Yo! A Romantic Comedy
Yo! A Romantic Comedy02002HD
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...
- 2006
(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...
- 2024
Spirit Riser
Spirit Riser02024HD
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...
- 2013
Junior War
Junior War02013HD
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...