Use Once and Destroy
- Directed by
- John L'Ecuyer
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 10 min
- 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
The filmmaker narrates his own past as a heroin addict. He tells the story of his experiences with the drug in a short film made for a school project.
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What happens
Use Once and Destroy is a Canadian short film, written and directed by John L'Ecuyer and released in 1995. Created as a student project in L'Ecuyer's second year of film studies at Ryerson University, the film features L'Ecuyer narrating the story of his own prior experiences as a heroin addict. Made for just $250, the film's genesis resulted from a magazine asking L'Ecuyer to write an article about his experiences as an addict. The film premiered at the 1995 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention from the Best Canadian Short Film award jury. L'Ecuyer's feature film debut, Curtis's Charm, premiered at the same festival. L'Ecuyer subsequently published a memoir of his experiences as a drug addict, also titled Use Once and Destroy, in 1998. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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