Wyatt's Video

August 19th, 1989. Small-town teen Wyatt Stevens is gifted a Sony Camcorder for his birthday, unaware of what he’s about to capture on tape.

  • Alex Darling
    Director
    INTRUDr (2023)
  • Hannah Bennett
    Director
    Heartbreakers (2023)
  • Alex Darling
    Writer
    INTRUDr (2023)
  • Hannah Bennett
    Writer
    Heartbreakers (2023)
  • Vuk Milutinovic
    Producer
  • Peter Meszaros
    Key Cast
    "Wyatt Stevens"
  • Bonnie Duff
    Key Cast
    "Shannon Stevens"
  • Evan Adams
    Key Cast
    "Missing Man"
  • Hannah Bennett
    Key Cast
    "TV Fitness Instructor"
  • Alex Darling
    Key Cast
    "News Anchor"
  • Kennie Harrington
    Director of Photography
  • Mill Quintero Acosta
    Production Designer
  • Jae Higgins
    Editor
  • Alexa Thobo-Carlsen
    1st Assistant Director
  • Jonus Zeballos
    Production Assistant
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    12 minutes 38 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 30, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Camcorder, Hi-8 Tape
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Alex Darling, Hannah Bennett

Alex Darling was born in Toronto, Ontario on July 4th, 2002, and is an up-and-coming Canadian writer, director, editor, and film composer. On his YouTube channel EYEWASH, his short films span many genres, including drama, horror, thriller, coming of age, and romance. Alex's work has been shown at the Sundance Film Festival and has amassed hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. His films often deal with experimental, visceral, and surreal subject matter. He has a natural passion for story-telling and wishes to use the medium to further the specificity of emotional and thematic communication.

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Director Statement

Alex Darling: Told entirely through low-res camcorder footage, Wyatt's Video is a haunting found-footage piece that juxtaposes the innocence and clear-cut morality of the 1980s with a very real and impenetrable evil of the future.

Born in 1973, Wyatt Stevens was your average Canadian teenager, with a passion for photography, music, and the Spacetrain comic books. On August 19th, 1989, he was gifted a camcorder by his well-off parents and left alone at home for the night. Like a kid in a candy store, he relinquished his new toy and freedom, which explains the plethora of footage left behind. However, he found himself way out of his depth when unexplainable noises and phenomena began to surround his isolated country home. What happened next is anybody's guess; authorities are still trying to piece it all together.