(Untitled)

The jokey title of this film owes as much to avant guard music as it does clever marketing. Although in a particular universe putting a film's title in parenthesis will mean that a store clerk puts it in the "w" section and a computer registers it with a numeric symbol.

(Untitled) director Jonathan Parker, speaking to Free Press Houston, mentions that before he was a film director he was a musician in bands, "playing music from symphony to punk." In Untitled Adam Goldberg plays a hard-to-get-along-with composer while Marley Shelton, always wearing clothing that makes noise when she walks, is an art gallery owner and the object of his affection. Untitled takes the audience into the world of commissioned art and music pieces and also explains the difference between the front room and the back room of art galleries.

'You encounter plenty of ego with this type of music," Parker remarks about the Adrian (Goldberg) character. Adrian's character composes music that involves kicking buckets and random attacks of sound. At one point in Untitled we see a performance of a piece of music called "So called laws of nature" a beautiful melodic work that involves bells, composed in the late-50s by David Lang.

"Lang is representative of the kind of music figure Adrian aspires to be," says Parker. "We use Lang's Third Movement of his Laws of Nature for that part of the film." Untitled has a hip feel, even while delineating relationships that are anything but hip.

(Untitled) opens exclusively in Houston at the Angelika Film Center.