{"id":590810,"date":"2023-09-12T03:11:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T00:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/flipside-review-a-documentarians-inspired-look-at-lifes-unfinished-projects-and-the-stuff-we-collect\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T03:11:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T00:11:41","slug":"flipside-review-a-documentarians-inspired-look-at-lifes-unfinished-projects-and-the-stuff-we-collect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/flipside-review-a-documentarians-inspired-look-at-lifes-unfinished-projects-and-the-stuff-we-collect\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Flipside\u2019 Review: A Documentarian\u2019s Inspired Look at Life\u2019s Unfinished Projects and the Stuff We Collect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2571b957705\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2571b957705\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/flipside-review-a-documentarians-inspired-look-at-lifes-unfinished-projects-and-the-stuff-we-collect\/#Flipside\" >Flipside<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    It\u2019s easy to measure your life in accomplishments, to look at the accumulation of honors and accolades, of personal and professional victories, and to say, \u201cThis accumulation represents empirical success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    It\u2019s harder to measure your life not necessarily in failures but in potentials left unfulfilled, in half-completed tasks or the stashed items left unused, and to say, \u201cDespite or perhaps even <em>because <\/em>of this, there is still success.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"review-summary-card\">\n<div class=\" lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-a-125 u-background-color-honey-light \">\n<div class=\"lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column u-width-275@tablet u-border-b-1@mobile-max u-border-r-1@tablet u-border-dotted lrv-u-margin-r-150 lrv-u-padding-r-150 lrv-u-margin-r-00@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-r-00@mobile-max lrv-u-padding-b-125@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-b-075@mobile-max\">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  lrv-u-font-family-primary u-font-size-34 u-font-size-38@desktop-xl lrv-u-line-height-small lrv-u-margin-b-125 \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Flipside\"><\/span>\n<p>                    Flipside        <\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>                    <span class=\"lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-font-family-accent lrv-u-font-weight-bold lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-font-size-16 lrv-u-display-block\">The Bottom Line<\/span><br \/>\n                    <span class=\"c-span  u-font-size-22@tablet u-font-style-italic lrv-u-font-family-secondary\"><\/p>\n<p>    Plucks something very universal from life&#8217;s loose ends.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lrv-u-line-height-large a-children-icon-spacing-none lrv-u-font-family-accent lrv-u-font-size-18\">\n<p>                            <strong>Venue: <\/strong>Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF Docs)<br \/><strong>Director: <\/strong>Chris Wilcha<br \/><span><br \/>\n                                1 hour 36 minutes           <\/span>\n        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Chris Wilcha\u2019s new documentary, <em>Flipside<\/em>, takes on the second challenge to deliver an autobiographical portrait of how a life seemingly of dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointments and failures can be a life well lived. Glimpse <em>Flipside<\/em> in the wrong moment or from the wrong angle and it can feel a little solipsistic, albeit in a way that will be relatable to many viewers. But taken in totality and with some reflection, it\u2019s a borderline-profound and philosophical expression of satisfaction with everything that is unfinished in life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Even on paper and without a documentary\u2019s worth of reflection, Wilcha\u2019s life isn\u2019t a failure at all. His first documentary, <em>The Target Shoots First<\/em>, was acclaimed on the festival circuit and offered a very Gen X look at his youthful attempts to sell out, working for Columbia House in the 1990s. He won an Emmy for helping adapt Ira Glass\u2019 <em>This American Life<\/em> for TV. Mostly, he\u2019s worked steadily as a commercial director for some of the biggest brands in the world. He seems to have a family suitable for picture frames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    But Wilcha also has piles of hard drives filled with footage from documentaries he never completed, imagined works of art that were shelved for various reasons. All the while, his gainful employment was in glorified marketing. For a storyteller raised in a generation that, at least for a while, found some ideological expression in the no-compromises cynicism of <em>Reality Bites<\/em>, this feels like disappointment. Wilcha\u2019s father was in marketing and that\u2019s not the path he wanted to follow, even if all signs point to his father being very happy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The ostensible spine of <em>Flipside<\/em> is Wilcha\u2019s return to his New Jersey hometown, where he is simultaneously pondering two monuments to the blurred line between collecting and hoarding. There\u2019s his childhood closet, a repository for albums, books, concert shirts and memorabilia of the juvenile he used to be. And then there\u2019s Flip-Side Records &amp; Tapes, a vintage record store where he worked his first job, a struggling repository from a bygone era that\u2019s closer to a museum than a place of retail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    As he struggles to identify the value in his decently organized mess and, through conversations with Flip-Side proprietor Dan and some of Wilcha\u2019s former friends and co-workers, he also goes through footage from some of those unrealized documentaries. And wouldn\u2019t you know it? The values \u2014 spiritual, if not financial \u2014 all intersect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Wilcha\u2019s cemetery of truncated projects is an intriguing lot. There are interviews with legendary jazz photographer Herman Leonard \u2014 trust me, you know some of his images \u2014 conducted shortly before his death. There\u2019s strange material from an Ira Glass touring show in which the host participated in fully choreographed dance numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Then there are the documentaries that could have been started that are adjacent to other unrealized efforts. One of the regular customers at Flip-Side is Uncle Floyd, a television personality and New Jersey icon whose journey has included unexpected connections to <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> and David Bowie. Wilcha\u2019s connection to Leonard came through an association with <em>Deadwood<\/em> creator David Milch, which emerged from Milch\u2019s connection to Judd Apatow, with whom Wilcha worked on a documentary about the making of <em>Funny People<\/em>. There\u2019s a latticework of editing that joins these unfinished documentaries within <em>Flipside <\/em>and unites them as facets of Wilcha\u2019s life. The idea that maybe what seem like loose ends from our past are actually plotlines awaiting unexpected resolution is both pleasantly Dickensian and wonderfully uplifting, if you think about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    You will probably watch <em>Flipside<\/em> thinking that many of these films, not quite unmade anymore, might be more engaging as a feature than this partial autobiography or the story of a beloved old record store. In particular, the material with Milch, who has Alzheimer\u2019s and is interviewed in conversation with his wife, Rita, and with Apatow, left me hungry for more. That\u2019s also the point. Wilcha thought they would be more engaging as features as well. But the care with which Wilcha uses Milch and Leonard and Uncle Floyd, finding in each of their attitudes and spirits something aspirational without really making it about him, is thoughtful and at times inspiring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Nobody in <em>Flipside<\/em> is living exactly the life they dreamt of. Even Apatow, an executive producer here as well, is tied to Wilcha through a movie about the stand-up career he didn\u2019t have. As Leonard puts it, though, \u201cThere will always be circumstances.\u201d Whether you overcome those circumstances or adapt to them or find a way to learn from disappointment and move on can be a matter of perspective or determination or luck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    This can be a metaphor for the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> pursuit of life, for the specific making of art or for the entirely universal experience of working your way through your clutter and debris and learning to see the treasure in the mess. Maybe you won\u2019t connect with the moments of <em>Flipside <\/em>that are most about Wilcha, but in 96 minutes, the film makes a case for cobbling something new from whatever your own unused documentary footage equivalent happens to be.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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