“Poor Yorick Entertainment” is the name of the fictional
independent film company created by James O. Incandenza in David
Foster Wallace’s novel,“Infinite Jest.” Incandenza’s filmic
body of work is detailed in the endnotes of “Infinite Jest”. While
many of the films are inconsequential to the plot of the book, the
story does revolve around the rumored existence of Incandenza’s last
film, titled “Infinite Jest”, a film so entertaining that the
viewer loses any desire to do anything other than watch it. The film,
or samizdat, as it is referred to, is sought after by a Quebecois
separatist group known as Les Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents
(Wheelchair Assassins), for use as a weapon of terrorism against the
newly formed Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.). Only a
few of the films in Incandenza’s body of work have any real
substantive relation to the central plot. Some are described in detail
while others are only mentioned in passing. This project is an attempt
to bring some kind of visual life to the fictional filmmaker’s body
of work, as well as the world of Infinite Jest.
———————————————- For the complete James
O. Incandenza filmography, visit this page:James O. Incandenza
Filmography ——————————————— Poor Yorick
Entertainment is maintained by Chris Ayers. Chris lives in Phoenix,
AZ, where the Phoenix Cardinals have become the Arizona Cardinals and
now play their games in Glendale, and Orin Incandenza is no longer the
punter. His other Tumblr, Extinctathon, features logo designs from the
world of Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam series. If you have any Infinte
Jest fan art you would like to have featured on this site, please
contact me at cwayers@gmail.com. Chris Ayers Creative
