A NJ Record Store Inspires a Mid-Life Crisis in ‘Flipside’ Doc Trailer
by Alex Billington
April 18, 2024
Source: YouTube
“It’s beautiful and inspiring” Oscilloscope Labs has revealed an official trailer for a documentary film titled Flipside, which first premiered last year at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival. It’s the latest creation from doc filmmaker Chris Wilcha, who worked for “This American Life” and also made a few docs, including Knock Knock It’s Tig Notaro in 2015 and his breakout The Target Shoots First. Flipside is his comical attempt to save a New Jersey record store and confront a mid-life crisis. TIFF adds: “In the process of looking back, he gets inspired to revisit the half-finished documentaries that exist only on his hard drives. He pulls up old interviews that no one has seen with creative people who faced their own crossroads, including radio host Ira Glass, writer Starlee Kine, jazz photographer Herman Leonard, and television writer David Milch. The passage of time brings a deeper poignancy to their testimonies… His quest may be personal, but many will see themselves in it.” Seems like another super nerdy meta filmmaker film! Which I’m always curious about.
Here’s the official trailer (+ poster) for Chris Wilcha’s doc Flipside, direct from OScope’s YouTube:
When filmmaker Chris Wilcha revisits the record store he worked at as a teen in New Jersey, he finds the once-thriving bastion of music & 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 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 real 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. Flipside is directed by American indie filmmaker Chris Wilcha (aka Christopher Wilcha), director of the docs The Target Shoots First and Knock Knock It’s Tig Notaro, and for “This American Life” previously. Produced by Joe Beshenkovsky, Michelle Currinder, Alex Fisch, Adam Samuel Goldman, James A. Smith, & Chris Wilcha. Oscope will release Flipside in select US theaters on May 31st, 2024. Visit their official site.
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