UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Multi Camera view of a “theater of the absurd” play (including an above-head surveillance camera). Inside a fast food restaurant, a white British man joins the table of a Black American couple, asking for a cigarette and french fries. He brings conflict to the couple, who begin to fight over existential questions about perception, sanity, and television..“I watch television more than it watches me”
Michael X-Ray
Sharon Anton
Girl
Haskell V. Anderson III
Boy
UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Multi Camera view of a “theater of the absurd” play (including an above-head surveillance camera). Inside a fast food restaurant, a white British man joins the table of a Black American couple, asking for a cigarette and french fries. He brings conflict to the couple, who begin to fight over existential questions about perception, sanity, and television..“I watch television more than it watches me”
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling. The play is shown act by act with the briefest of breaks to move props or for refreshments. The lack of costumes, real props and scenery is soon forgotten.
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.
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The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.
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