NAME Brandon Cronenberg
FILM The Camera and Christopher Merk
ROLE Writer, director
PREVIOUS WORK Director, Broken Tulips
FAST FACT The son of the Baron of Blood follows in his father’s famous footsteps
Having a dad with a film resume as long as the average speech at the Oscars might turn some kids away from a career in film.
But for Brandon Cronenberg, having dad’s rather sizable shoes to fill wasn’t a put off. Brandon’s short film, The Camera and Christopher Merk, which premieres at TIFF, is about an apartment building where residents can monitor each other by surveillance camera (think 1984 meets the Bachelor Pad), “a type of Facebook taken to extreme,” says Cronenberg. The film got the nod of approval from Dad.
“He liked it. He gave me a few notes,” he says.
But this is no re-hash of Videodrome, David Cronenberg’s cult classic about the dark side of broadcasting.
“There are televisions in it but I think the tone is very different and the message is very different,” says Cronenberg.
