Sibling Topics Section A (2009)

Trecartin returns to his conception of familyasbusinessenterprise 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 questingfor identity for romance etcleads 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 shadingin of the outline