*Infinite Jest (V?)* — the archival ghost; Master "destroyed or vaulted sui testator"
texture · YTSDB (2004), archival
- When: YTSDB (2004); some archivists file it under YTMP as completion of IJ(IV) — as printed
- What: The object's paper trail is a single, contested filmography entry: Infinite Jest (V?), Poor Yorick Entertainment Unlimited, sole credit "'Madame Psychosis'; no other definitive data." Most authorities list it unfinished/unseen; two Cartridge Quarterly East essays call it "extraordinary" and JOI's "most entertaining and compelling work"; West Coast archivists infer its gauge from allusions to "radical experiments in viewers' optical perspective and context"; Canadian archivist Tête-Bêche lists it completed and privately distributed by will. Every comprehensive filmography leaves the Master "either destroyed or vaulted sui testator" — no witness account, no viewing report exists in the apparatus. Per Notkin, Joelle believed JOI (an acute self-critic) would have destroyed the Master as he'd destroyed four or five prior attempts with lesser actresses. The object exists, at this level, only as rumor and archive. See Joelle's timeline (event 32), event 37.