'Flipside’ - A Film Where Life Is All Happening

It’s truly all happening with this amazing piece of docu-cinema, one that resonates on so many levels in so many ways. Not just in regards to certain personal aspects of life, but also some of the perspectives and motivations towards my work with It’s All Happening.

I saw this film at the invitation of my friend Steve B. at the encouragement of Jonathan McNeal of the Neon cinema in Dayton. It's worth noting all of my filmgoing compatriots who came to the screening all had the same heartfelt perspectives about it.

Oh, and it’s about way more than an old record store (though those of us who have personal connections to such establishments will find some additional affinity for some of the life stories being shared in it).

WATCH THE TRAILER A good overview of Flipside here from The Hollywood Reporter A short description of the film…

"When filmmaker Chris Wilcha revisits the record store he worked at as a teenager in New Jersey, he finds the once-thriving bastion of music and 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 documentary 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 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.