This is Canadian director David Cronenberg's first short film since his early days as a film-maker. It has an elderly man sit at home and tell us that today a group of children found a movie camera and brought it home; he waits, knowing he will soon be filmed by them with it, this inevitability causes him some trepidation.
Clocking in at six minutes, there really isn't much time for this to achieve anything too much and I can't say I came away from it very impressed or enlightened. Short films, especially when they are this short, are something that have limited appeal for me in that they rarely make an impact; this one is no different for me. The actor talks about the function of the camera being to capture the death of the moment and to expand on this he tells of a dream he had where he sat in a cinema and watched a film in which he was being filmed and this led him to rapidly age, causing him a feeling of terror. So the film has something negative to say about the process of being filmed. But this one ultimately is very much for Cronenberg diehards, although I would say it is of limited interest even then.
Clocking in at six minutes, there really isn't much time for this to achieve anything too much and I can't say I came away from it very impressed or enlightened. Short films, especially when they are this short, are something that have limited appeal for me in that they rarely make an impact; this one is no different for me. The actor talks about the function of the camera being to capture the death of the moment and to expand on this he tells of a dream he had where he sat in a cinema and watched a film in which he was being filmed and this led him to rapidly age, causing him a feeling of terror. So the film has something negative to say about the process of being filmed. But this one ultimately is very much for Cronenberg diehards, although I would say it is of limited interest even then.