It was a collection of scenes from anime cartoons, expertly spliced together and offered on YouTube.
With a well-selected collection of scenes Ms. Halberstadt, an acclaimed French writer and producer, recalls her early life as a mousy, overlooked little girl.
Perhaps they'll give us a taste of our own medicine - a collection of scenes from the Lake District with the caption, "This place gives you cancer".
It also includes a few idiosyncratic packages, like a collection of scenes in which parents from sitcoms past explain sex to their children.
But, until now, the Capitol has remained a very public space, a peculiarly American political town square, rich in an almost Dickensian collection of scenes and personalities.
"It feels so odd to watch a collection of scenes from your puberty on screen, to have a product of a year in your life, a year that was massively life-changing for me as a human," she says.
One can't imagine David Simon, for example, creating a thoughtless compilation porn, a collection of scenes designed solely to appeal to base sexual desires, and leaving it at that.
"Art History," for instance, is a stark collection of scenes at and around a film set; its startlingly practical sex scenes that are choreographed by the onscreen director and its pared-down image repertory and elliptical storytelling have little to do with the rounded and dialogue-heavy dramatic realism of Bergman's early works.
