Leilah Weinraub
Director · Los Angeles, California, USA
Leilah Weinraub (born 1979) is an American filmmaker, conceptual artist, and the former CEO of the fashion brand Hood By Air. In 2018 she was named a Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Fellow.
Movies6
Movie5.6AnimationDramaWrestling with writer’s block for her first film, Bouchra, a queer Moroccan jackal living in NYC, starts having difficult yet overdue phone calls with her mother in Casablanca that begin influencing the project. Balancing the precarity of working as an artist, the rift in her cultural identity and an array of romantic interests, Bouchra’s emotional reckoning becomes her path to expression.
Bouchra
2026 · 8 votes
MovieComedyHorrorA delirious movie installed inside a ghostly barn made with prefabricated materials. The oscillatory movement of the rocking chairs on which visitors sit partly helps to alleviate the syncopated rhythm of the montage and the frenzy of images that follow. A series of brassy characters in wigs and thick make-up map the various locations of the film: a lazy river, a hobby barn, and forest watchtower.
Plot Front
2019
MovieComedyIn P.opular S.ky (section ish), a character played by Trecartin informs us that she wants ‘to live in a world where narration is the devil’. The ability to script oneself is an inalienable right, and anything that opposes that right must be rejected.
MovieComedyThe video revolves around an unending "meeting" - a busy, aimless meeting that goes in circles to evade a traditional narrative arc. The meeting is essentially a party, and the entire company bumps and grinds with itself everywhere from in boardrooms to airplanes. K-Corea INC. K processes ideas of automation and containment, embodied by these hyper-controlled locations and by the seemingly looping actions that take place in them. Meetings, where discrete parts of a corporate body come together to attempt to "get on the same page," display the futility of corporate unity, and of individual purpose or voice remaining intact within a corporate culture.
K-CoreaINC. K (section a)
2009 · 1 votes
Movie5.5ComedyScience FictionDazzling 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.
I-Be Area
2007 · 6 votes
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An amnesia stricken Beverly Hills housewife wanders into an underground lesbian punk club and discovers a new way of life.
The Perfect Ones
2006 · 2 votes