One Movie, Multiple Bill

"The cool thing we like about 'Tracey' is you can watch the bottom left of the screen the whole time and it's a very different film than if you watch the upper right," he says.

Homage to a Porsche

Those Kindels, always leaving their garage door ajar. And with a Porsche inside! You'd think they'd be more careful. But look closer, and you'll see that Karl and Carrol Kindel's Capitol Hill garage is a trompe l'oeil (French: "trick the eye") mural and you just fell for it.

Local artist Mark Walker, 26, painted the mural of the Kindels' blue 1985 Porsche Carrera on their back-alley garage door on the 700 block of Ninth Street SE last year. The couple, both retired government statisticians, sold the car five years ago. Karl wanted to pay homage to the sports car, which he had coveted since age 12.

They decided to "have a little fun," Carrol says.

Karl posted an ad for an artist on Craigslist, received about 15 responses and chose Walker because of the quality of his sketches and his demeanor. "A real gentleman," Karl says.

Walker, a 1999 graduate of Duke Ellington School of the Arts, painted a box of the Kindels' home-brewed beer to the right of the car and made sure that the cracks in the cement lined up with the ones he painted on the mural.

"We all have our way of paying homage to things and memories," Walker said via e-mail. "This was theirs."

The Tracey Fragments plays April 25 at 6:30 p.m. and April 26 at 7:30 p.m. at Landmark's E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW. $10. 800-955-5566 or http://www.tickets.com. Filmfest DC runs through May 4, http://www.filmfestdc.org.