Ryan Trecartin Movies

  • 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)
  • 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...

    I-Be Area
  • 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...

    Spirit Riser
  • 2013
    Center Jenny

    Center Jenny

    Center Jenny

    6.12013HD

    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...

    Center Jenny
  • 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...

    Comma Boat
  • 2010
    Roamie View: History Enhancement

    Roamie View: History Enhancement

    Roamie View: History Enhancement

    72010HD

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

    Roamie View: History Enhancement
  • 2001
    Kitchen Girl

    Kitchen Girl

    Kitchen Girl

    02001HD

    In Kitchen Girl, Trecartin's frequent collaborator Lizzie Fitch throws herself into a state of total hysteria, portraying a girl who takes the...

    Kitchen Girl
  • 2016
    Temple Time

    Temple Time

    Temple Time

    02016HD

    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
  • 2005
    A Family Finds Entertainment

    A Family Finds Entertainment

    A Family Finds Entertainment

    6.22005HD

    A Family Finds Entertainment chronicles the story of mixed up teenager Skippy and his adventures in ‘coming out’. In this over the top...

    A Family Finds Entertainment
  • 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,...

    Sibling Topics (Section A)
  • 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...

    Yo! A Romantic Comedy
  • 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...

    Plot Front
  • 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...

    K-CoreaINC. K (section a)
  • 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...

    Temp Stop
  • 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
  • 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...

    P.opular S.ky (section-ish)
  • 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...

    Item Falls
  • 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
  • 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...

    Valentine's Day Girl
  • 2016
    placebo pets

    placebo pets

    placebo pets

    02016HD

    For the tenth anniversary of W's November art issue, supermodels Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid are inducted into the futuristic world of Lizzie Fitch...

    placebo pets