After making its premiere at last fall's CMJ Film Fest in New York City, "Strange Parallel," the Elliott Smith pseudo-documentary by Steve Hanft, has now made its way to the small screen -- and is scheduled to turn up on the Independence and Bravo channels over the next few weeks.

In the 28-minute film, Hanft, a veteran director of music videos for Beck and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, follows a fictional camera crew around as it attempts to track down the hard-to-find Smith in-and-around his Portland, Oregon, stomping grounds.

Shot in vignette style, the movie features several surreal scenes, including one in which Smith's hand is replaced by a metal appendage that he needs in order to play certain "heavy metal" riffs. In another quixotic episode, a toy robot torches the lyrics to "Miss Misery," the song from the "Good Will Hunting" soundtrack that was nominated for an Oscar in 1998 -- and which Smith rarely, if ever, plays live anymore.

In a recent interview with MTV,

Smith described shooting the scene where the "Miss Misery" lyrics are flambeed. [article id="1450486"]"[Steve] found this robot that had these guns that came out,"[/article] Smith said, [article id="1450486"]"and there was a guy behind the counter who would light the lyrics on fire."[/article]

[article id="1450486"]"And it'd burn up part of the counter top,"[/article] he added, [article id="1450486"]"and we'd have to go, 'OK, let's do it again.' Clean off the counter top, then here comes the robot, then burn the lyrics. I don't know, it was kind of fun watching the lyrics burn, though."[/article]

According to the singer-songwriter, Hanft has also pieced outtakes from "Strange Parallel" into a video for his next single, "Baby Britain." Smith is currently on tour in support of his current album, "XO," and will play Columbus, Ohio, on Monday night.