{"id":8371,"date":"2012-01-17T11:03:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T19:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=8371"},"modified":"2012-01-17T11:03:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T19:03:53","slug":"camera-a-short-film-by-david-cronenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2012\/01\/17\/camera-a-short-film-by-david-cronenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Camera: A Short Film by David Cronenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CronenbergCamera.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CronenbergCamera.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"CronenbergCamera\" width=\"580\" height=\"315\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CronenbergCamera.jpg 580w, https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CronenbergCamera-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThis is a short film made in 2000 for the Toronto International Film Festival by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Cronenberg\">David Cronenberg<\/a>. &#8216;Videodrome&#8217; actor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leslie_Carlson\">Les Carson<\/a> talks about how afraid he is of the movie camera while children bring one into the house and set up to shoot their own movie with professional equipment. The actor&#8217;s fear and doubt contrast sharply with the enthusiasm of the kids. But of course they are interested in him as subject matter because they know that he is real. This is an excellent and moving study of time, creativity and how all art is an unfathomable mixture of enthusiasm and terror.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><object width=\"580\" height=\"423\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hQlQgzRyBfY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hQlQgzRyBfY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"580\" height=\"423\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short film made in 2000 for the Toronto International Film Festival by David Cronenberg. &#8216;Videodrome&#8217; actor Les Carson talks about how afraid he is of the movie camera while children bring one into the house and set up to shoot their own movie with professional equipment. The actor&#8217;s fear and doubt contrast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,779,1349,1458],"tags":[366,2261,69,2262,848,2263],"class_list":["post-8371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-filmmaking","category-independent-film","category-short-films","tag-children","tag-david-cronenberg","tag-kids","tag-les-carson","tag-short-film","tag-videodrome"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8371"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8374,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions\/8374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}