From Renata Adler’s Speedboat, a female reporter is part of a strange research task in New York
Famously plotless, yet collaged from her experiences as a journalist for The New Yorker, Renata Adler’s 1976 cult novel Speedboat paints an absurd picture of life through incongruous incidents lived by a young NYC reporter.
Isolating one of the novel’s surreal moments, New York-based writer and filmmaker Jess Magee interprets Adler’s storytelling for short film SPEEDBOAT: THE STANFORD URBAN-CONTAMINATIONS STUDY – documenting a street encounter with a scholarly man, who convinces her to let him collect a "slide" from her shoe in the name of research. As a tribute to Adler’s belief in short film as an ideal medium for “profiles, short stories, fables, allegories, satires [and] jokes,” Magee builds a campy backdrop for Speedboat’s succinct, colorful language, as the scene takes a comedic shock turn.…read more at nowness.com
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