The film seems to take Araki back to his roots. In 1987 he made his directorial debut with Three Bewildered People in the Night. With a budget of only $5,000 and using a stationary camera, he told the story of a romance between a video artist, her lover and her gay friend. Two years later, Araki made a name for himself on the festival circuit with Long Weekend (o’ Despair, a very small-scale Big Chill derivation involving a group of recent college graduates brooding over their futures during one woozy, boozy evening.