User Reviews

This short movie was very well done as can be seen by its excellent editing and its story expressed with only a few spoken words.

Reflexus was a great project to work on, since the character has to look within himself for the answers. I saw the character as being benevolent, but life has a way of sometimes turning benevolence on its head. Reflexus won the first internet film festival in history, the 1997 Toshiba/Warner Brothers Reel Time Film Festival. Reflexus was filmed in the L.A. area over four nights, with two days of still photography. I was able to contribute my ideas to the filming, including the minimizing of dialogue and the dropping of the wine bottle. Originally, instead of the wine bottle falling, it was going to be the clinking of glasses against the railing. Mark turned the wine bottle scene into a spectacular shot. I think that the music really sets the film in motion, particularly in the aftermath of the wine bottle scene. Mark is a professional film editor as well as the writer and director of Reflexus, and this really helped to make this film memorable and fast-paced. I'm glad that so many people have been able to enjoy it. Jack Forbes

Reflexus was very interesting and kept you hanging till the end. I enjoyed it a lot and can't wait to see what the director comes out with next. I believe this movie won the first internet film festival award.

Reflexus is a fascinating film, and was one of those lucky breaks for me as an actor. I was called in through my own submission through an acting newspaper called, at the time, BackStage West. But I couldn't make the audition until the "call-back". The Director, Mark Yoshikawa, told me about this guy looking over some photos and then seeing the woman. Mark later told me that it was my focused interest in the photos themselves that sold him on me as the actor to play the role. That was the beginning of a lot of fun doing this film. We shot the film itself over four nights. We shot the still shots all around Los Angeles over two additional days.

I play the character of an everyday man who has a fondness for his neighbor.

But like many things in life, too much of a good thing can lead to problems ... problems that sometimes won't shake loose.

The scenes outside were freezing cold, in nothing but shirtsleeves for some of the shots. The shoot was fun, and the whole idea was to make this twisted or twisting film with as little dialogue as possible to get the idea across. I guess it's become a very popular film, and I think that's because it's interesting to imagine what came before and after the film in the characters' lives, how it all pieces together, and what it means for us in our reality. What does it mean? You decide.

Jack Forbes

a film depicting the never ending cycle of life which triggers off the notion of whether you're just a clone... and that there're many "yous" out there and the life you lead is not unique to you and do you ever break out of this cycle... or if you're being watched but is it you who is being watched? or is it someone else whom is you... whom you think is you but who isn't... does this scare you... do you conform?