Apparently, the footage is courtesy of the director's father, who was one of the very first people ever to use a colour home movie camera.
Jackson described the production as the world's largest home movie, due to the independence and sense of family.
Bennett began making films at five years old with the family's 8 mm home movie camera, often using his sister for starring roles.
Jack surmises that if they were released from the film, they could be captured by it as well using a home movie camera.
The film, just over 3 minutes long, shows at first what looks like simple home movies, of kids riding snowmobiles, a man washing his truck.
In the first, the film (secreted in a violin case) is in fact someone's home movies; in the second, the violin case contains a violin.
Mortified is a comic excavation of adolescent artifacts (journals, letters, poems, lyrics, home movies, stories and more) as shared by their original authors before total strangers.
It was released only on 16mm for home movie rental and television syndication.
