The Misconceived

Wilkins' funny, smarty, uncannily animated oddity is about class and artists in (midlife) crisis. In this distant companion piece to Wilkins' 2019 film The Plagiarists, a failed filmmaker turned carpenter is hired by his estranged college buddy, now a successful sculptor renovating the vacation home of his dreams. Wilkins builds on his work as a structural film artist, using motion-capture, 3-D video-game animation, and stock music from Pond5, for an irreverent, dizzyingly insightful look at artists and labor.