[1] The film presents the mental process of remembering a friend's name as it were an episode of an game show, with various celebrities attempting to assist Landreth.
Subconscious Password is Landreth's first 3-D film and third with the NFB, Copperheart Entertainment and Seneca College.
The idea for the film came to Landreth after watching a rerun of the game show Password in 2010.
[3] The images of celebrities used in the film were developed from a variety of sources, with Sammy Davis Jr. appearing via live-action footage available in the public domain and James Joyce derived from photos projected onto a pseudo-3D character.
[7] On March 9, 2014, Subconscious Password was named best animated short at the Canadian Screen Awards.