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Film Threat

"Films about artists rarely capture their artistic inspiration. Creation takes too damn long, and movies are too impatient. A film like Alex Karpovsky's 'Trust Us, This Is All Made Up', then, offers something rare. Karpovsky presents, in blessed real time, a single performance by T.J. Jagodowski and David Pasquesi, improvisational actors whose on-the-fly plays defy easy categorization. They're funny as hell but more nuanced than jokey. The laughs come from characters quickly sketched, but richly drawn, and from the performers' attention to the everyday absurdities of American English. What they come up with here allows us to see a creative idea captured from first spark to final flowering."

Alan Scherstuhl, THE PITCH (Kansas City)