Camera

2000
6m

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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... Read allWhile 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.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.

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7.0/10

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Awards
- 2 nominations

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Leslie Carlson

The Actor

Marc Donato

Child

Harrison Kane

Child

Stephanie Sams

Child

Kyle Kass

Child
(as Kyle Kassardjian)

Katie Lai

Child

Natasha La Force

Child
(as Natasha LaForce)

Danny Mags

Child
(as Daniel Magder)

Chloe Randle-Reis

Child
(as Chloe Reis)

Camille Shniffer

Child

Director
- David Cronenberg
Writer
- David Cronenberg
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Trivia
This short film is featured on the region-one 2-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of Videodrome (1983).

Quotes
The Actor: When you record the moment, you record the death of the moment. Children and death are a bad combination.

Alternate versions
The entire film was shot in digital except for the final shot, which was filmed using the same Panavision camera featured in the movie. Director David Cronenberg assumed that audiences would easily be able to tell the difference, but as it turns out, most of the people in the premiere audience didn't notice the switch. For subsequent screenings, Cronenberg added music to the shot to give it additional emphasis, although audiences still had trouble.

Connections
Edited into Short6 (2001)

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9/10

Brilliance

This is an extraordinary fable about aging and about film-making.

This old actor, unhappy with the route of his career is also the symbol of the great problem faced by the elder ones: looking back and not finding something to be proud about.

However youth comes to rescue him, giving him a chance to always be remembered by spectators and to feel useful to a new generation.

Especially well achieve by Cronenberg is the camera motion and positioning, which seems that of a child discovering all the potential of the found camera.

Pure brilliance!