It's a Party! (1986)

Directed by

Peg Campbell

Genre

comedy drama

Country

Canada

Elsewhere

IMDb

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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