First trailer for amnesia-noir The Actor is hard to forget

“What kind of a guy are you, Paul?” an eerie ticket agent asks André Holland’s Paul Cole in the trailer for The Actor. To Paul, it’s more than just a moral question. He’s just woken up in a mysterious small town with absolutely no memory of who he is or how he got there. He doesn’t even remember his own name—he finds it on his ID.

The film’s trailer plunks audiences right in the middle of Paul’s disorientation. All of the shots are hazy and aren’t shown in any sort of linear fashion. Of course, the film’s team knows a little something about memory and anonymity. The Actor serves as a solo directorial debut for Duke Johnson, who previously co-directed the Oscar-nominated stop-motion film Anomalisa with Charlie Kaufman in 2015. The Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind writer is reuniting with Johnson as an executive producer on The Actor.