Ryan Trecartin, a filmmaker from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been presented to us in both Film 115 ("Family Finds Entertainment") and as a visiting artist ("I-Be Area"). Both works are of similar scope and influence - an extreme amount of collaboration between Trecartin and his players - ranging from performance to make-up to costuming to set-design (and the destruction of the sets)....
This is part one of five from Trecartin's 2004 product "A Family Finds Entertainment". I found that it resembles "Untitled Fall '95" in terms of style (though not many may see the same resemblance). Bag's influence seems more deadpan, although the screeming, murderous bunnies have to make you admit that she is capable fo some sort of slapstick. Trecartin, in the midst of his clusterfuck works, seems to prevail with this type of humor. I personally find 4:30-7:00 increasingly hilarious the more I watch it (like most of these works, i was uneasy on the first viewing).
Most of Trecartin's works also feature some kind of commentary. I searched for a particular clip from "I-Be Area" where he critiqued the voice of the internet as a creative collaboration. This is, however, shadowed thorughout all of his works. Extreme digital zooms on post-production create a grainy image; un-natural camera movements created by moving visible portions of the frame; overlaying clip-part or other videos are all critiques of what I can only discribe as the "YouTube Collaborative Effort". I have no idea how Trecartin feels of this personally - but our two options are pastiche or satire. Bag's works mimmicked the teenage-girl archetype, as described prior to the viewing. Incessant 'likes' and 'ums' fill the silence in her monologues and skits.
This is part one of five from Trecartin's 2004 product "A Family Finds Entertainment". I found that it resembles "Untitled Fall '95" in terms of style (though not many may see the same resemblance). Bag's influence seems more deadpan, although the screeming, murderous bunnies have to make you admit that she is capable fo some sort of slapstick. Trecartin, in the midst of his clusterfuck works, seems to prevail with this type of humor. I personally find 4:30-7:00 increasingly hilarious the more I watch it (like most of these works, i was uneasy on the first viewing).
Most of Trecartin's works also feature some kind of commentary. I searched for a particular clip from "I-Be Area" where he critiqued the voice of the internet as a creative collaboration. This is, however, shadowed thorughout all of his works. Extreme digital zooms on post-production create a grainy image; un-natural camera movements created by moving visible portions of the frame; overlaying clip-part or other videos are all critiques of what I can only discribe as the "YouTube Collaborative Effort". I have no idea how Trecartin feels of this personally - but our two options are pastiche or satire. Bag's works mimmicked the teenage-girl archetype, as described prior to the viewing. Incessant 'likes' and 'ums' fill the silence in her monologues and skits.
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You haven't thoroughly compared Bag's work with Trecartin's. I think there are a lot of interesting differences, rather than similarities.
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