Survival Skills

This film begins as a spoof of training videos on VHS. The movie uses this device quite well, including rewinds, freeze frames and fast forward. You can also see the degeneration of the tape throughout.

We start with Jim on his first day as a police officer, as he taught the basic principles of his job. When an early assignment gets him involved in a domestic dispute, Jim finds himself becoming too involved.

What begins as a light-hearted satire of the training films we've all seen, begins to turn dark as Jim finds himself going seriously off script. What is real and what is part of the video become blurred.

Stacy Keech is the on-screen and off-screen narrator of this story, gradually becoming more involved and aware.