"A Prayer for Nettie" also marks Cumming's transition from photography to video, and features several of the individuals who had figured in Cumming's photographic work, including Albert Ross Smith, Raymond Beaudoin, Joyce Donnison, Nelson Coombs, Gerald Harvey, and Geoffrey Bates.An additional cast of characters is introduced in Cumming's 1996 video, "Cut the Parrot", a video produced for the deceased Albert and introducing Beatrice Johnson, Elizabeth Barclay, Susan Thomson, James Carter, and Gordon Alexander.