[1] Alexander Carson is a founding member of the North Country Cinema media arts collective, along with filmmakers Kyle Thomas and Nicholas Martin, colleagues whom he met at film school in Montreal.

[5] Later that year, Carson completed work on North Country Cinema's first feature film The Valley Below as a producer.

[10] Carson often performs in his own films, and frequently cites his appreciation for the work of amateur actors or "non-actors" in cinema.

[11] Carson performed the role of Mr. Oddi in Sheila Heti's play All Our Happy Days Are Stupid directed by Jordan Tannahill.

The show was first presented at Videofag in 2013, before a larger remount at the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto and at The Kitchen in New York City in 2015.