When Tom, an art house aficionado, returns to his hometown to attend a film studies conference, he discovers that his ex-girlfriend Esme has recently married their former prof, Cinny. Contact with the couple, gossip with his friend Nasim, and flirtation with a Hollywood bit player known as Lady Lex draw Tom into a noirish plot that may have Chabrol-ish consequences for his rival, and permanently distance him from his fiancée, a skilled harpsichordist named Ciana. As he navigates shifting islands of personal memory, Tom begins to wonder if life is not just a retcon (or the most contrived form of retroactive continuity). The price of admission includes an amateur opera matinee, a pub discourse on Godard-McBride Breathless Paradox, a giallo nightmare, and a hypnagogic hallucination inspired by a Tarkovsky retrospective, all threatened by the skintight spectre of the next superhero franchise.
“Retcon‘s a prose film: definitely an art film, and in terms of sheer melodrama per square inch probably an opera, alternating fragmented, surrealist arias and grounded, plot-advancing recitatives that flow like a deep breath.”
– Leah Bobet, Prairie Fire
April 27th, 2023
When Gellhorn, a notable poet, begins a university residency in a bdynamic metropolisb and stays at the illustrious MC!ximo College, he finds himself scandalized, and for little known reason.
July 10th, 2026
One summer’s day, a man is lured out of his garden for a private conversation.
Forthcoming November 20th, 2026
When Tom Mellersch, a budding screenwriter, takes a working holiday in “Toontown,” he finds his creative aspirations being batted about by a sleazy producer, his assigned collaborator, an academic director, and his celebrated helpmate.
