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In their first feature, former Austinites the Duplass brothers have made a near-perfect relationship-trauma comedy.

The naturalistic indie talker unhurriedly follows a young woman through her days and nights – Nerf-ball games at work, waiting for the bus, and a series of relationships fueled by “chronic dissatisfaction.”

Starring 'The Puffy Chair's Mark Duplass

The Duplass-a-Thon charts the evolution of a goofily lovable archetype

Austin filmmaker John Bryant draws on his own childhood traumas

Ace reporter Jordan Smith is hot on the trail of Austin's own Santa.

Long Drives, Low Pay, and Drunks -- What a Life!

The Duplass Brothers discuss how they found 'The Puffy Chair,' and where they're headed now as it hits theatres

The Puffy Chair'

An almost-exclusive report from the set of the Duplass Brothers' follow-up to 'The Puffy Chair'

Austin's most famous filmmaking siblings return

John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, and Marisa Tomei co-star in this Duplass brothers' comedy about a young man's obsessive attachment to his mother.

The Duplass Brothers buck New York and Los Angeles to premiere 'Baghead' here in the town where they started it all

The already under way adventures of Austinites at the Dances Sun and Slam, and what they might mean for the local scene

The Best of the Fest

UT grad Mark Duplass returns to Austin with director Charlie McDowell and their elusive take on the indie rom-com

Jay and Mark Duplass rock the cradle of love in Cyrus

Kind of funny and kind of scary, the lo-fi Baghead is not so much a horror movie as a four-character study of relationships and the drive to find meaningful work.

John Pierson’s Master Class airs tonight on KUT

Sony bags Baghead

On making movies and making babies

The year in film, 2006

Joe Swanberg, anti-director, on Hannah Takes the Stairs

The filmmaking brothers, Jay and Mark Duplass, venture into TV with HBO's Togetherness

Back in Austin after eight days in the land of mountains and Mormons at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, it's hard to distill the experience into any one verity. The combination of dozens of movies and the oxygen-poor altitude create memories that seem more impressionistic than precise.

Is that a bag on your head, or are you just glad to see the Duplass brothers back in town?

Homegrown filmmaker on mumblecore, friends, and his first South By break

SXSW alum returns with a new feature

March 10-18