An Ontario teen whose school project has become a viral hit online says the short film about the 'monotony and numbness' of life under lockdown was a good 'coping mechanism' for those emotions.
Liv McNeil's short film about self-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic has become a viral hit online. TORONTO -- Faced with an open-ended art project to close out the school year, it was clear to 15-year-old Liv McNeil what the subject matter had to be: self-isolation.
The video has garnered more than 100,000 views on YouTube since June 17 and even a shout-out from one of Canada’s most celebrated artists, director Sarah Polley, who called the three-minute short film a “masterpiece” on Twitter. That sequence was actually filmed over a couple hours, not several days, she told CTVNews.ca. She didn’t have a tripod, so she set up her Nikon camera on the step of a ladder and filmed the same sequence over and over, soundtracked to M83’s “My Tears Are Becoming a Sea,” changing clothing items and shifting the position of objects in her room.
A knack for the filmic arts might run in the family. Her father, Scott McNeil, has worked in television production, including work on such hits as “Holmes on Homes.” He told CTVNews.ca that he takes “zero credit” for his daughter’s latest success and he can hardly make it through the three-minute film without crying.
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