Public Television

1979 · 23 min · Drama

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”

Directed by Tom Musca