JOI's films about the marriage: the topologist's-affair parody; the film Avril took as a personal slap

texture · UNDATED (JOI's film career, B.S.-YTSDB) — the liaison lattice

• When: UNDATED (across JOI's twelve-year directorial career, B.S. to YTSDB)
• What: JOI's oeuvre dramatizes the marriage's fault lines. "(At Least) Three Cheers for Cause and Effect" (YTMP) has a high-altitude-academy headmaster obsessing over V.A.-hospital litigation "as a way of diverting himself from his wife's (Heath's) poorly hidden affair with the academically renowned mathematical topologist who is acting as the project's architect" — a near-transcription of Avril, C.T., and the E.T.A. setting. The unfinished "Good-Looking Men in Small Clever Rooms That Utilize Every Centimeter of Available Space" is "the sour parody of academia that the Moms had taken as an odd personal slap." (Cf. the Québécois-mythology figure "L'Odalisque de Ste. Thérèse" in "The Medusa v. The Odalisque," and the Oriental fight-choreographer who "cottoned right off" only to Avril, scene 085.)