Center Jenny

Center Jenny

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.

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A Family Finds Entertainment

A Family Finds Entertainment

Ryan Trecartin’s film A Family Finds Entertainment is a camp extravaganza of epic proportions. Starring Trecartin’s family and friends, and the...

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

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

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...

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Plot Front

Plot Front

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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Mark Trade

Mark Trade

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 :...

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I-Be Area

I-Be Area

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

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P.opular S.ky (section-ish)

P.opular S.ky (section-ish)

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...

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Roamie View: History Enhancement

Roamie View: History Enhancement

Roamie View: History Enhancement reveals JJ as a husk of his former self, overwhelmed by too many experimental personalities and reverted to...

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K-CoreaINC. K (section a)

K-CoreaINC. K (section a)

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

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What's The Love Making Babies For

What's The Love Making Babies For

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

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Kitchen Girl

Kitchen Girl

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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Ready

Ready

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,"...

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Temp Stop

Temp Stop

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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Sibling Topics (Section A)

Sibling Topics (Section A)

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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(Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me.)

(Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me.)

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...

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Item Falls

Item Falls

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...

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Temple Time

Temple Time

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

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Yielders Path

Yielders Path

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

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Belly's

Belly's

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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Panderson Heights

Panderson Heights

Colony Panderson and Reverse Stacy take watch tower knocks.

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