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Public Television (1979)

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”

Release: 1979-01-01
Runtime: 23 min
Cast
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Michael X-Ray
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Sharon Anton
Girl
Haskell V. Anderson III
Haskell V. Anderson III
Boy