While a veteran actor laments the state of film and film acting, a group of young children sneak a Panavision camera into the apartment where the actor resides and decide to make a film with it.
Writing
Leslie Carlson's rant about 'real' acting vs. digital fakery.
Direction
Cronenberg doing gentle comedy? Unsettlingly sincere.
Director
David Cronenberg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Commissioned for the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival's 'Preludes' program, where auteurs made shorts about cinema itself.
Leslie Carlson played the same character in Cronenberg's 'Videodrome' and 'The Dead Zone'—this is technically his third appearance as 'The Actor.'
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