Troika (1969)

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• Girato a: California

Troika is a 1969 American comedy art film written, directed, and produced by Charles Fredric Hobbs. It stars Hobbs, Richard Faun, Morgan Upton, Nate Thurmond, Gloria Rossi, and members of the San Francisco Art Institute. Its three parts are built around a fictional account of the director's attempt to gain financing for a film titled Troika.

Production

Hobbs graduated from Cornell University in 1953 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, and hoped for a career in the visual arts. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, he produced paintings and sculptures acclaimed for their unique style, which explored environmentalist and spiritualist themes.

Troika was developed during the late 1960s arthouse cinematic movement, when visual style often took precedence over linear narration. Contemporary writers categorized the film as a comedy or art film. It incorporates several different narratives and genres within each segment. Hobbs crafted Troika as a series of increasingly bizarre segments, the final segment being his favorite.

The cast was mainly composed of unknown actors, although some had backgrounds in theatre. Hobbs plays a fictionalized version of himself and the chef character. The San Francisco-based basketball player Nate Thurmond appears as the mystical "Attenuated Man" in the final segment; one writer described the character as a Christ-like figure.

Morgan Upton, later known for his roles in The Candidate (1972) and Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), appears as Rax, the bug-man. Members of the San Francisco Art Institute were hired for several roles, including the blue and purple people and the students in the "Alma Mater" scene. Some of the characters in the marching sequence were student activists from the UC Berkeley School of Law.

Principal photography began in 1969. The visual artist Gordon Mueller was hired as the editor, and directed the scenes where Hobbs was on camera. Richard Faun, who portrays Gordon Goodloins in the film was also credited as co-director. The photographer and filmmaker William Heick was brought in as cinematographer; he was a close friend of Hobbs and had worked with the filmmakers Sidney Peterson and Robert Gardner between 1948 and 1953.

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