Sibling Topics (Section A)

Sibling Topics (Section A) (2009) blends Comedy and Science Fiction elements. Top cast includes Ryan Trecartin, Ashland Mines, and David Toro. Relationships and emotional turning points shape the core of the story.

Actor: Ryan Trecartin • Genre: Comedy movies

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.