Trimpin: The Sound Of Invention

Don't get me wrong, Trimpin was a fun movie. It was neat to see the output of a local artist captured on film, especially footage from several sessions of him collaborating with the Kronos Quartet.

The direction was fine, acting in a fairly removed documentary style. The editing was pretty good, cutting together various one-off exhibits with progress on the Kronos collaboration and culminating with footage from the performance they eventually produced.

But at the same time, it's a little hard to find something really compelling in the story. Sure, the man has done some amazing installations, but there are an equal number of entries that are just plain weird. And while it's neat to see some of his creative process, it's also hard to really capture the spirit of it on film when it's such a spatially rich art form. In the end I think I'd rather just see some of his work up close. As a catalyst for that the film works, but maybe not much more than that.