Director Edson Oda sites that the films that influenced this project include After Life (1998) (After Life) by Hirokazu Koreeda and The Tree of Life (2011) by Terrence Malick.
Funny enough, It took the POV/VHS unit 9 days to shoot the footage displayed on the television sets.
Premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2020
All of the VCR displays in Will's house blink "12:00". This is the default time display for that old technology after the power is cycled. It is a bit of an old meme. Most consumers never learned how to set their VCR clocks and apparently the Interviewer didn't either.
Nine Days (2020) is similar to "Nine-Nights," also known as Dead Yard which is a funerary tradition practiced in the Caribbean. True to its name this celebration lasts nine nights and days with the ninth and final night being the night before the church service.