SF Indiefest: Triple Trouble

In the year 2023, following the death of Randy Rose, the lead singer of The Residents, his son Randy Junior discovers that his father’s ashes have been stolen and listed for sale on eBay by a mysterious culprit. While investigating, Junior discovers the footage for the group’s unfinished feature film Vileness Fats in a foot locker in his mother’s basement. Triple Trouble began its existence almost fifty years ago as Vileness Fats, an underground film from The Residents, a music and performance group from San Francisco. Naively unaware of the limitations of the half inch “industrial” video the group used to shoot the film, they eventually abandoned the project but its charm and creativity continued to resonate through the ensuing decades. In 2018, the group rewrote the original Vileness Fats screenplay as Double Trouble, recontextualizing the 1970’s video and plot line into a new story. The Cryptic Corp, the group’s management, was in the process of raising money for that film when the COVID lockdown struck in early 2020, resulting not only in the interruption of work on the film, but also in the cancellation of a Residents’ tour. Determined to complete the almost five decade long project, The Residents rewrote the screenplay again, moving the protagonist five years into a more confined future, and becoming Triple Trouble in the process.

Directed by Homer Flynn of The Cryptic Corporation, the record label behind legendary art collective, The Residents.

Runtime
1h 36m
Format
2D Digital