Public Television (1979)

Public Television

1979

Drama

Synopsis

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”

Credits

Director

Tom Musca

Cast

Haskell V. Anderson III as Boy

Michael X-Ray

Sharon Anton as Girl