Director's Statement (cont.):
The real essence of the narrative in The Thin Time is narrative itself, which becomes clear as Cid's story begins to disintegrate -- the audience never finds out what the novel is about or what its real significance is, besides the idea of a story. Drawing on such diverse source material as Nabokov, Cervantes, and American film noir, The Thin Time is an attempt to synthesize genres, but also to call attention to the idea of genre, the idea of the story, the "meta-narrative" so often reviled in film school... The film itself is really a work of theory rather than a work of fiction, a work of literary criticism, of aesthetic philosophy. Its "story" serves as a framework for executing these ideas.

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