Room 112 starts with the celebrity interview convention of shot / reverse shot and then expands and disintegrates it as the piece progresses. The hotel room setting serves as the location of any number of events. It is no accident that this is where movie studios choose to make their stars available for interviews, as it is only in such a 'non-place' that local Montreal television personality Mosé Persico (the host of Entertainment Spotlight on CFCF, mentioned on several websites as a press-junket-loving sycophant) can sit across from Tom Cruise and have what may resemble a conversation. Whether or not they are in the same room, or simply edited together from an EPK (Electronic Press Kit) distributed by the studio is irrelevant. Each is playing an assigned role in the performance well known as Celebrity Interview. Room 112 takes the Celebrity Interview and brings it together with another well worn cliché: the Fighting Couple to create a foursome of Stills that cut back and forth between 'correct' and 'incorrect' pairings – sometimes showing what we expect to see and other times showing an incongruous or irreconcilable pair. During this splitting of stereotypical scene cells, the cells split again and then again. The result is a video cycle that mimics, fractures, and complicates the generic forms of the most pervasive medium – television. Narrative morsels are given in one scene and then negated in the next. While the room with its red walls, striped couch, and white trim creates a claustrophobic coherence, attempts to join the separate scenes into a meaningful narrative lead to frustration.