Untitled

A quirky little comedy set in the art world, Untitled is a movie that is hard to grasp and can prove to be hard to like. It's artistic, it's absurd, it's experimental, and just like art it's full of emotions.

The film revolves around two bothers, Adrian Jacobs (Adam Goldberg) and Josh Jacobs (Eion Bailey), and the people in their lives. While Josh is a successful commercial artist with a thirst for having a show in the art gallery of his girlfriend Madeline (Marley Shelton), Adrian is an experimental musician who actually believes that the sound of kicking a bucket or tearing a page is "music".



Untitled is as much about art as it is about relationships, desires, and aspirations of the people who populate this artistic world. It's a world where the eccentrics get fame and normalcy is placed in the back, away from sight.

Adam Goldberg, who remains one of the most underrated actors in the West (see his cameo in the hit TV series Entourage for some pure genius) gives a performance that has shades of Woody Allen's neurosis. Lucy Punch known as just The Clarinet is simply charming and stands out even though she remains primarily in the background. Marley Shelton as the gallery owner "swinging" between the two brothers portrays the modern day woman who has her priorities set and goals that need to be achieved. Vinny Jones' cameo is fun, but nothing special.



Untitled might not be appreciated by all. Considering the slow moving storyline, it might seem like a long film for most. It's a film that should be admired for its absurdness and subtle comic timing. Stick with it till the end, and you might actually start looking at the art world in a whole new perspective.

Rating 3.5/5

PressPausePlay (Documentary)

PressPausePlay is a documentary that looks at the changing impression of art all around the world over the last few years. It focuses on different aspects of this change keeping in mind the improvements in technology and how this has revolutionized arts in all its forms, be it painting, writing, acting, or music.

With technology becoming extensively mobile and its easy availability becoming more and more widespread, there has been an increase in the number of so called "artists". The documentary looks at how, in the present day and age it is easy to self publish a book or promote oneself on YouTube (or elsewhere) as an actor or a musician or in any other art.

With Blogging, Twitter, Facebook making everyone a mini-celebrity in their own right the documentary raises an important question of differentiating the mediocre from the talented. While this change has resulted in new discoveries in different fields of art, it has also, because of the extreme numbers, hidden true talent in-between the vast sea of mediocrity.

On a personal note, I do disagree with the notion that talent is getting sidelined because of the huge influx of mediocre or poor artists. I have always believed that just like beauty, talent too lies in the eyes or the beholder. What might be music to your ears could simply be noise for me. So who really has the right to judge talent? Keeping this in mind, if technology has given everyone of us a method and a way to express what we believe to be as our talent, then there should not be a problem with that. True talent, popular talent, will eventually crawl out of this pile of artists and eventually rise up.

PressPausePlay is a well made documentary with quite a few famous personalities giving their two cents worth of opinions on the progression of art in the present century. It's a documentary that encourages everyone, artist or non-artist, to go out and experiment and showcase their hidden talents.

PressPausePlay is an important documentary that should be watched by everyone who has any link whatsoever with art because it gives a hint of the “artistic” future; and asks us to be a part of it in whichever way we can.

The documentary PressPausePlay is available on Vimeo.