Film Festivals - Types of films.

alrighty.

I looked at a lot of film festivals and I looked at the shorts that have won awards.

I've seen award wining shorts on Sundance and I must say some of them are pretentious bullshit.

I was thinking ,when they are creating this symbolic surrealistic theme do you think the judges over the festivals necessarily understand everything behind the film or they are like " okey , this looks pretty good ,I find deeper meaning to it , I have my own interpretation for it , the film is great " .

Because I see a lot of films which are basically 10 minutes of nonsense and they win a lot of awards.

How is that?

I don't know, but surrealist/ arthouse filmmaking has always been a big part of indie culture. There's a reason why it cant be mainstream but also why it's so hailed at an underground kind of level.

RED ROBOT said:

How is that?

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Festival judges are hipsters?

what are some examples of these bad films? I don't think I've ever seen a Sundance short that I didn't think deserved to be at the festival.

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