Comma Boat (2013)

In Comma Boat were stuck in a mockauthoritarian fantasya power trip The film centers around a directorcharacter played by Trecartin who oscillates between feelings of omnipotence and selfdoubt As if a posthuman postgendered reincarnation of the Fellini character in 8 ½ the director gloats and frets about professional and ethical transgressions I know I lied to get ahead he admits at one point Ive made up so many different alphabets just to get ahead in my field The director is fancier now but the fear nags that he might be repeating himself like a dumb soldier ova and ova and ova and ova The metaconnection to the artists own career while obvious is also a decoy All art at some level is about the artist Here reflexivity is the surface level providing a decodable veneer that encases something more unsettling and complex Singlechannel and 3channel versions