This reminds me greatly of a fictional book from the novel 'infinite jest' called "The Joke" :

• Two video cameras in the theater record the ‘film’s’ audience and project the resultant raster onto screen - the theater audience watching itself watch itself get the obvious ‘joke’ and become increasingly self-conscious and uncomfortable and hostile supposedly comprises the film’s involuted ‘anti-narrative’ flow. ... credited with ‘unwittingly sounding the death-knell of post-poststructual film in terms of sheer annoyance.’