Gray's Anatomy (1997)

Steven Soderbergh directs this 80-minute adaptation taken from a much longer Spaulding Gray monologue. This is different from the other Spaulding Gray monologue films however in that its not a mostly static recording of a Gray performance, instead Soderbergh chops things up, Gray delivers parts of his monologue on different sets and against different backgrounds for dramatic effect. You have Gray shot through distorted glass, Gray with a forest background or Gray with the silhouette of  'the Elvis Presley of psychic surgeons'  performing behind him, and so on depending on the subject matter and themes of the segment of monologue Gray is then presenting. This makes things much more kinetic and fresh, and sets Soderbergh's production apart from the earlier but no less good Swimming to Cambodia and Monster in a Box. ***