A misfit turned L.A. model struggles to define herself in the soul-crushing fashion industry, until a mysterious woman's haunting performance strikes her imagination.
Two middle-aged lesbian couples accidentally kill a younger girl and decide to cover it up. But their crime comes back to haunt them when an unexpected stranger appears in their lives, bringing tension and discord.
Dazzling and raucous, Ryan Trecartin's first feature-length video takes cues from chat rooms, social networking web sites, YouTube, John Waters, and Pee-wee’s Playhouse, and then turns them upside down and inside out to create an entirely singular video genre. In I-BE AREA, Trecartin intertwines the stories of an incredible ensemble cast to follow a day in the life of I-BE II, the rebellious clone of I-BE.
"In Spring of 1996, my senior year of high school, I documented a group of 8th grade girls who were notorious for their crass behavior and allegedly bad hygiene...", the film begins. Shot in 1996 and edited in 2000, this is a short documentary about a group of 13-year-old 'riot grrrls' in Los Angeles who were socially ostracized by their peers and upperclassmen.
"In Spring of 1996, my senior year of high school, I documented a group of 8th grade girls who were notorious for their crass behavior and allegedly bad hygiene...", the film begins. Shot in 1996 and edited in 2000, this is a short documentary about a group of 13-year-old 'riot grrrls' in Los Angeles who were socially ostracized by their peers and upperclassmen.
"In Spring of 1996, my senior year of high school, I documented a group of 8th grade girls who were notorious for their crass behavior and allegedly bad hygiene...", the film begins. Shot in 1996 and edited in 2000, this is a short documentary about a group of 13-year-old 'riot grrrls' in Los Angeles who were socially ostracized by their peers and upperclassmen.