Chances are potentially relatively high that all of us, at some point or another, have abandoned a project or two that could revolve around almost any task, from upgrades to one’s home to that yet-unfinished memoir to a rusty car in dire need of some TLC, still occupying space in an out of the way carport ready for that day when motivation strikes and the time comes to get back to work.
It is this theme, that of unfinished work, which fuels the majority of “The Flipside,” a unique entry into the world of documentary filmmaking that explores this dilemma, touches on the creative side of documentary construction as a whole, and somehow manages to serve as a musing on the passage of time in a way that the end result finds all its ingredients working well together when all logic, as well as the words spoken in narration by director Chris Wilcha, indicate it all should not.
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