Ian's on Tuesday (2016)

'Ian's On Tuesday' was filmed in one night at the home of our subject, Ian Michel. The format is largely inspired by Shirley Clarke's 'Portrait of Jason', a film which expertly presents the cinematic apparatus as a catalyst for the performance of a documentary subject. The content of the film and Ian's performance gives viewers pieces of a larger puzzle but never assembles them. It refers to a trauma and brings up the possibility of Ian having been a perpetrator, but neither vindicates nor incriminates him. He is there to perform, to interact with the medium of film, to allow glimpses of humanity to peek through the apparatus. The exposed ends of each roll mimic the opening and closing of a theater's curtain. The content of his performance begs for further investigation, but the concern of Ian's on Tuesday is not to get to the bottom of these things, just to pose the problem of performance, representation and unanswered questions in documentary filmmaking.