Made mostly with practical special effects - very little CGI was used.
One of the spectators is played by Daniel Quinn, who starred in Scanner Cop - O Destruidor de Mentes (1994) and Scanner Cop II (1995) as a man who could make people's heads explode with his mind, just as the tire does in this film.
Shot in fourteen days.
The director, writer, cinematographer, editor and composer, Quentin Dupieux, is also known as Mr. Oizo. He became famous internationally when he released Mr. Oizo: Flat Beat (1999) which introduced the yellow puppet Flat Eric.
The script was written in one month.