Ryan Trecartin
Birthday:
Place of Birth: Webster, Texas, USA
Biography: Ryan Trecartin is an American artist and filmmaker currently based in Athens, Ohio. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with a BFA in 2004. Trecartin has since lived and worked in New Orleans, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Miami.
Movies
Sibling Topics (Section A)
Trecartin returns to his conception of family-as-business-enterprise, casting parent figures as mana...
View Movie
K-CoreaINC. K (section a)
The video revolves around an unending "meeting" - a busy, aimless meeting that goes in circles to ev...
View Movie
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 i...
View Movie
Mark Trade
Shot in 2013 - In 'honor, of cause fake news - less gravity here - don't bird watch with a gun - rem...
View Movie
Comma Boat
In Comma Boat, we're stuck in a mock-authoritarian fantasy--a power trip. The film centers around a ...
View Movie
Plot Front
A delirious movie installed inside a ghostly barn made with prefabricated materials. The oscillator...
View Movie
Item Falls
In Item Falls, we are peaking. We start out at a casting call, but before long we're firmly in the g...
View Movie
Wayne's World
Trecartin and his collaborator/co-star Lizzie Fitch ponder the messages delivered by the most banal ...
View Movie
Ready
In Ready, Wait, played by Trecartin, is introduced as the eponymous figure of the series. Wait waits...
View Movie
Temp Stop
Temp Stop, as the title implies, has a disjunctive quality that separates it from the other parts of...
View Movie
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 ...
View Movie
Center Jenny
The film focuses on the life of Jenny who has, according to many of the other characters, become too...
View Movie
Belly's
This rare collection of Ryan Trecartin's early short films, produced as a student at the Rhode Islan...
View Movie
Valentine's Day Girl
Trecartin crafts a fantastical narrative about a girl whose obsessive personal utopia is disrupted. ...
View Movie
I-Be Area
Dazzling and raucous, Ryan Trecartin's first feature-length video takes cues from chat rooms, social...
View Movie
What's The Love Making Babies For
Trecartin's extraordinary digital manipulations reach a new level as he speculates in vivid animatio...
View Movie
Yo! A Romantic Comedy
In Yo! A Romantic Comedy, Trecartin borrows clichés from hip-hop culture and genre films to craft a ...
View Movie
(Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me.)
Trecartin describes (Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me.) as a "narrative video short that takes place insi...
View Movie
Spirit Riser
Two sisters are thrown out of their isolation and onto opposite coasts of America by a terrifying co...
View Movie
Junior War
In Junior War, a throng of highschoolers congregate at night for a party in the woods sometime in th...
View Movie
Love Part One
A short film showcasing the artist’s maturation in experimental video which would culminate in his d...
View Movie
Permission Streak
Permission Streak opens with a question: “Can you tell the difference between a camera and a camera?...
View Movie
Yielders Path
The video displays Fitch and Trecartin's signature style of ludicrous cut-scenes and ironic hyperbol...
View Movie
Roamie View: History Enhancement
Roamie View: History Enhancement reveals JJ as a husk of his former self, overwhelmed by too many ex...
View Movie
A Family Finds Entertainment
A Family Finds Entertainment chronicles the story of mixed up teenager Skippy and his adventures in ...
View Movie
Temple Time
Shot in a former Masonic temple in Los Angeles – a five-story warren of large, cavernous rooms akin ...
View Movie
Everything But The World
Human past and future intersect in a non-linear, natural history meta-documentary about ourselves: H...
View Movie