FLIPSIDE
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. (USA, 2023, 92
mins, English | Dir. Christopher Wilcha)
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