It's a Party! (1986)
- Directed by
- Peg Campbell
- Genre
- comedy drama
- Country
- Canada
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A camera watches a woman's apartment hallway and living room during a party. Guests enter and leave the frame, and the dialogue comes from strange things the filmmakers and actors actually heard at parties.
conversationalimprovisedobservationalquirkyupbeatintimateslice-of-life
What happens
It's a Party! is a Canadian comedy-drama short film, directed by Peg Campbell and released in 1986. Set in the apartment of a woman who is having a party, the film uses a stationary camera facing her hallway and living room, with actors moving in and out of the frame as the party's events evolve and change, while the film's dialogue was improvised by the filmmakers and actors based on strange or odd things they had personally heard at parties. The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 8th Genie Awards. Campbell and cowriter Peggy Thompson followed up in 1989 with In Search of the Last Good Man, which reversed the formula by using a rapidly moving camera to film a story with limited in-film movement. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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