Flipside

Showings

Grand Illusion Cinema Fri, Jun 7 7:30 PM
Grand Illusion Cinema Sat, Jun 8 4:30 PM
Grand Illusion Cinema Sun, Jun 9 4:30 PM
Grand Illusion Cinema Sun, Jun 9 8:30 PM
Grand Illusion Cinema Tue, Jun 11 7:30 PM
Grand Illusion Cinema Sat, Jun 15 6:00 PM
Grand Illusion Cinema Sun, Jun 16 5:00 PM
Film Info
Release Year:2023
Genre:Documentary
Production Country:USA
Original Language:English
Format:DCP
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Chris Wilcha

Description

When filmmaker Chris Wilcha revisits the record store he worked at as a teenager in New Jersey, he finds the once-thriving bastion of music and weirdness from his youth slowly falling apart and out of touch with the times. FLIPSIDE documents his tragicomic attempt to revive the store while revisiting other documentary projects he has abandoned over the years.

 

In the process, Wilcha captures This American Life icon Ira Glass in the midst of a creative rebirth, discovers the origin story of David Bowie’s ode to a local New Jersey cable television hero, and uncovers the unlikely connection between jazz photographer Herman Leonard and TV writer David Milch. This disparate collection of stories coheres into something strange and expansive—a moving meditation on music, work, and the sacrifices and satisfaction of trying to live a creative life.