SXSW 2009: "Trust Us, This Is All Made Up."
How to capture improvised comedy, which is the essence of having to be there, on film? Recorded, performances are always going to feel flat without the high wire act immediacy of watching people pull characters, jokes and storylines out of thin air. The central hour or so of Alex Karpovsky's documentary "Trust Us, This Is All Made Up" is a straight shot of a show that improv specialists T. J. Jagodowski and David Pasquesi did at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York, where they have a standing monthly gig. Filmed on multiple cameras capturing the goings-on from different angles, it's essentially concert-style footage that suffers from that sense of remove while remaining a lively enough document of what Jagodowski and Pasquesi are legendary for -- long-form improv, done on a stage bare except for three chairs, all of it, as Jagodowski assures before the pair start, invented on the...
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