ARTE.TV - PSYCHO BUGS
Switched 1 off, the other 9 watchable. I have poor experiences with the platform on which I haven't found even one truly good film but the 10 short films inspired by the pandemic got me curious. Each short film was preceded by a 30-second Lux Award commercial - annoying, the same stuff over and over every few minutes. A good point is you can choose subtitles from 6 languages. I saw the films because they depicted a number of varying individuals living all over Europe and provided insight into their emotions during the lockdown and those were often quite different from mine.The first one, "Never Good Enough" - on perfectionism - was awfully dull and superficial so I switched it off. As for the rest, the psychologists didn't say anything I wouldn't have known before and in one case - the Spanish one talking about hugs - I think her knowledge may be culture driven hence not applicable worldwide.
THIS IS SHORT
NEW POINT OF VIEW
TESTFILM #1
Watchable. An artistic documentary. It delivers the lowdown on how reliable the DCP system is for cinemas, apart from having cut down the distribution cost by 90%: a file either meets the strict criteria and can be played or doesn't comply with the rules and cannot be screened. But the artistic attempt to circumvent it results in utterly vexing white noise and flashy pictures. I'm unimpressed. The artistic need for experimenting with a film is maintained after all - in the movie-making, before the encryption for the theatrical distribution - the documentalists just grabbed the wrong end of the stick.
LUCID DREAMS
Watchable. This 6-minute short appears to put together random thoughts around the beginning of the pandemic. It's typed in white on yellow background - mild to the eyes but not the simplest to read. The film description doesn't help to make sense of it. And why make it into a film if all you do is reading? I guess it's meant to reflect the doomscrolling it mentions at some point. But in reality even that would involve more variety, pictures and the like.
The voting system after the two films failed to work.
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