Early in the editing stage, Director Devin Anderson received many comments that the film had a lot of visual similarities to French New Wave filmmaking. It is in reference to this that the film received it's french title. The brief line of French dialog in the film is to accentuate the character's sense of disassociation from the world around him.
From the production's conception, Director Devin Anderson and the Director of Photography agreed that the film would deviate from any sort of traditional Narrative structure, instead playing more like a painted portrait of a character. Northwest egg tempura painter Nathan DiPietro was commissioned to in fact paint a literal portrait of the lead, which appears in the film.
After calling college chemistry labs all over Washington State, Producer Justin O'Neill found the location used in the film the night before the scheduled shoot - 5 blocks from the director's home.
Director Devin Anderson and Director of Photography Drew Dawson became aware of lead actress Bernadette Cuvalo while working as lighting technicians on another local production that she had a supporting role in.
Director Devin Anderson's girlfriend Jennifer, who appears as a doctor, also worked at a local hospital and supplied her own lab coat, gloves, and test tubes. The MRI that she holds up is actually of her own knee.
Lead actor Eric Hunter was formerly the front man of a popular cult band from Salt Lake City,
PCP Berzerker, and also former roommate of the Director.
Eric Hunter allowed his weight to fluctuate considerably during the shoot, in tribute to actor Marlon Brando in 'The Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)'.
The film is essentially Non-Narrative, and Surrealist - more along the lines of the works by French New Wave movement and European filmmakers such as Bergman, Jodorowski, Tarkovsky, Buñuel, and Cocteau.
Before deciding to try his hand at directing, Devin Anderson composed numerous musical scores for local independent films, including Wisconsin born filmmaker Jack Bennett's surrealist piece 'Synthetik' and the Northwest film, 'Uniforms' which starred members of popular rock band Death Cab for Cutie.
During the sequence where Eric Hunter's character is literally "blown" through a doorway, the actor toppled onto Lead Grip Owen O'Neill, hitting him in the head with his elbow and causing a mild concussion. They still managed to finish the scene and the shot appears in the final film.
During two sequences, Director of Photography Drew Dawson left the Redrock adaptor off causing distortion to the image. The Director liked the look and performance during those shots so much he left them in the final version, despite Dawson commenting that they looked "absolutely horrible".
After shooting had completed, the crew learned that Actress Bernadette Cuvalo hated Taco Bell - a common low-budget item for their lunches.
Eric Hunter agreed to appear in the film without reading the script, and in fact has never read the script - wanting to keep his performance raw and spontaneous, he instead asked the Director to simply describe the scene to him moments before filming.
Principle filming took exactly two weeks. Editing, sound design and scoring the picture took 3 months.
During the apple scene, Eric Hunter actually bites into a rotten apple they found by the side of the road. His reaction was real.
Several exterior dolly scenes were filmed with the camera duct taped to the roof of Actress Jennifer Anderson's Dodge Stratus, with Director of Photography Drew Dawson sitting out the window holding the camera, and Director Devin Anderson behind the wheel.
Many scenes were filmed at Director Devin Anderson's day job - a teleconferencing company - although it is virtually un-recognizable in the final film. He wrote the film while working two 8-hour weekend shifts at this location.
