James O. Incandenza: A Filmographyª

The following selections below, to be added to incrementally, but only as good-quality pirated copies of Incandenza's films become available for discreet dissemination here and in other secured sites around the globe, were originally housed in the Incandenza Film Archive comprising the cramped confines of the Harry Ransom Center's boilerroom basement, before one-legged throngs of Quebecois hooligans hellbent on avant garde-cartridge robbery and other malicious mayhem, attired in feral infant masks and pink pantsuits that enabled them to sneak by security, ransacked the Harry Ransom Center of Austin, TX, and depleted it completely of its Incandenza Archive, and just hours later began selling the Après Garde masterpieces on e-bay for absurdly high U.S. dollar sums to oil-rich Saudi's before a Gentle executive order shut their nefarious copyright infringing schenannigans down with a national cartridge embargo on all exports the following morning.

Note that while most all hard copies of J.O.Is films have been lost, they can still be found in outline form and in theory and conception, in footnote n. 24 of Infinite Jest (pp. 985-993).

The first film Infinite Jesters was able to obtain from underground sources, was unfortunately unfinished due to yet another hospitalization that James O. Incandenza endured during the last few years of his life. We have no information on what year it was made, but do know it was UNRELEASED. Until now....

Infinite Jesters is pleased to premiere James Orin Incandenza's incomplete film,
Good-Looking Men in Small Clever Rooms That Utilize Every Centimeter of Available Space With Mind-Boggling Efficiency

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a. From Comstock, Posner, and Duquette, "The Laughing Pathologists: Exemplary Works of the Anticonfluential ..." if you really must read the entire fucking footnote, then turn to the bottom of p. 985, you Freak!, and finished the goddamn footnote yourself.

Nice little flick. But what I really enjoyed was that lovely, long, opening sentence in the first message. Beautiful...simply beautiful.

Well thanks, bubba. It's difficult, sometimes, to try and draw beauty out of ashes, you know, as they say, but give credit to the good fearless folks of Austin, TX, for helping ensure that those leftist Quebecois cartridge dealing crime boss scuz buckets intent on thieving the entertainment (or any of Incandenza's films) right out from under the museum's noses, came to swift Ranger justice. Hope you and yours there in Austin aren't any worse for the wear there, bubba, what with all that went down recently. Damn hand-ambulatory torsos that don't know when to quit terrorizing....

You know, now that I think about it, I thought I saw an inordinate number of burly men in wheelchairs rolling around town; but obtuse me, I never put two and two together. Huh, probably lucky for me I didn't. If i had realized who they were, the recognition on my face would've been instantly noticed by those Canadian killers, and I woulda been a goner fer sure. This was one time when being "the most unobservant man in the universe" (one of many epithets my wife has for me) probably saved my life!

Thank fate, bubba, that you and yours in Austin are AOK.

For those still w/out the book, here's James O. Incandenza's Complete Filmography that Les Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents have intently pursued for years, often w/lethal consequences.

Here's one of Incandenza's films produced before subsidization (B.S.) time. It's described on p. 988 as a 'parody of neoconceptual structuralist films of Godbout and Vodriard...'

Various Small Flames

and here is an analysis of the film, Various Small Flames, by at least one member of the film crew.

4> If you had "heard the squeak", we wouldn't be having this conversation right now...

"Dated only 'Before Subsidization.' Meniscus Films, Ltd. Uncredited cast; 16 mm.; .5 minutes; black and white; sound. Soliloquized parody of a broadcast-television advertisement for shampoo, utilizing four convex mirrors, two planar mirrors, and one actress. UNRELEASED"

Until now ... Cage

This adaptation stays truer to the summary footnote than any of the other Incandenza-inspired films I've seen so far.