Film

Sibling Topics (Section A)

2009 · 50m · Comedy · Science Fiction

Trecartin returns to his conception of family-as-business-enterprise, casting parent figures as managers and executives on one end of the spectrum, estranged children as freelancers on the other. The director plays four sisters named Ceader, Britt, Adobe and Deno, the boundaries of whom are indistinct. It is difficult to tell where one sister ends and the next begins. The sisters' questing—for identity, for romance, etc.—leads them on an episodic series of adventures, several of which are defined as "premises." A Trecartin premise plays out as a predetermined situation where the character initiating it has already set the tone, terms, and trajectory of the experience in their mind. The actual, lived event serves only as the shading-in of the outline.

Ryan Trecartin

Ceader / Britt / Adobe / Deno / Auto Ceader

Ashland Mines

Mass Major

David Toro

CC

Lee Kyle

?? > Baby > Jason / Auto Baby

Lizzie Fitch

Able / Able in SneakAPeak

Kristina Vecsesi

Carryon Ova

Holcombe Waller

Henry

M. Blash

Porn Foreign Peopled

Carlee Smith

Hey:Sayer

Jamie Lee Christiana

Flow Stopper

Eddie Pineda

Eeph Tend

Chad Tolson

Owen

Charley Sharp

Timmy

Colin Self

CALL;IT

Kathleen Brennan

I>O>ME (IDT)

Caitlin MacBride

P,T, (IDT)

• Ryan TrecartinProducer · Director · Writer · Editor
• Elizabeth DeeProducer
• Lee KyleCasting

Release date

April 19, 2009

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

50m

Genres

Comedy, Science Fiction