Who's the Caboose. Directed by Sam Seder. USA. Colour. Bermuda International Film Festival. Showing tonight at 8.45 p.m. at the Liberty Theatre.

The Bermuda Film Festival's `Who's The Caboose' is a hilarious pseudo-documentary in the tradition of `Spinal Tap' and `Man Bites Dog'.

`Who's The Caboose?' is a faux verite m comedy about a woman who goes to Los Angeles to chase her dreams and her boyfriend who follows her out there to ruin them.

`Who's The Caboose', which premiered on Saturday evening at the Little Theatre, was shot in 12 days in LA and four days in New York.

Director, co-lead and co-writer Sam Seder and co-writer Charles Fisher wrote a script with specific comedic actors in mind allowing for a lot of improvising.

For principal shooting in Los Angeles they hired a crew from a local film school primarily from the American Film Institute to help.

The story begins in New York when a film crew is given a large grant to follow the homeless with fatal diseases. The crew becomes depressed, walks into a bar and meet Susan (Sarah Silverman) and Max (Sam Seder).

Susan tells the crew she is about to go to Los Angeles for "pilot season'' a 90-day period where the networks decide on the new season sitcoms. The film crew ditches the homeless and follows Susan and neglected boyfriend Max to Los Angeles.

The film is shot in a deliberately bad fashion with lots of glimpses of camera equipment and occasionally even crew members.

It is difficult to compare `Who's the Caboose' to other films. How do you talk about acting when there is no acting? Seder and Silverman improvise throughout most of the film.

Although Max and Susan are fictional characters, their experiences are heavily drawn from the lives of Silverman and Seder.

"If you show this film to people in the industry, they just don't get it,'' said Me. Seder at the Liberty Theatre. "I haven't even bothered to show it to my agent. If there were Los Angeles film types here right now, most likely they would come up and ask why I put them in the film.'' `Who's The Caboose' mocks everyone involved in the industry including entertainment lawyers, agents, secretaries, actors and wanabee actors (that's everyone in Los Angeles).

"I guess it was pretty obvious how much I hate Los Angeles,'' Seder said. On the many barbs and insults traded between blond and brunette actresses in the film, Seder said: "Yes, there is absolutely that cattiness between women before auditions.

"There is an absolute war between blondes and brunettes in the industry. Men compete, but not in the same way. Men cheer each other on in an insincere way.'' Silverman and Seder's ad-libbing reached unusual proportions when Susan inadvertently wrecks her car. The fender-bender when Susan finally ditches the film crew was real, unplanned and hilarious. It is the driving irony through out the film that makes it all so funny.

If you feel sorry for the fatally-diseased homeless abandoned by the film crew, don't worry, the crew get their just desserts.

Finally, Susan and Max eventually send the film crew packing, and take the crew's footage on the grounds that Susan didn't sign a consent form. They use the footage to finally wrangle a television show of their own.

"These characters were so reprehensible, it was inevitable they would get their own TV show,'' Mr. Seder joked after the show.

JESSIE MONIZ PILOT STUDY -- Sarah Silverman and Sam Seder star in Who's the Caboose?