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Existentialist low-budget comedy "about one of life's losers".
Variously labeled as a deadbeat by his ex, a failure by his mother, and a shell of himself by his best friend, Lousy Carter is falling apart, debt-ridden and cast adrift. As he interprets The Great Gatsby for an antipathetic graduate class, one of the students offers Lousy Carter one last chance at living the dream.
A tribute to Richard Linklater's Slacker made by members of the Austin Filmmakers Society.
Dark comedy tracks happy-go-lucky slacker Max across three decades.
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Taking a ride into liminal spaces Katharine Round on making documentary Ghost Town
Flying blind Michael Woloson and Scott Tinkham on improvisation, experimental writing and Littermates
In deep water Dominic Curran on internet overexposure and A Little Learning Is A Dangerous Thing
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