YouTube Link[](https://youtu.be/IAxWD4XHt18)
Unfortunately given the nature of this presentation, there is no way to watch the shorts screened at this event in their entirety outside of cam rips on YouTube recorded on a mobile phone (a HTC, to make things worse in 144p). Perhaps it was the right decision to immediately burn the 35mm film strip along with the screen and the projector along with the ending of these films.
Pretty cool concept, but there is a certain lack of substance to the concept and the shorts range from both mildly amusing to yawn-inducing. Bonus points for the director thought it would be great for a film revolving around the death of, or the end of "cinema" to film actual gravestones of relevant cinematic figures. Yeah, you heard that right. This collection of shorts revolve around a vague theme of cinema being a dying art. It concerns itself with something pretty pretentious and already slightly off-putting to some from the get go, especially given it exists almost ironically, despite being a showcase for world cinema. And what comes as not unexpected is most of the shorts weren't "perfect" or "organic" (to use language which fits the bill for what this collection stands for) enough for me and fails to live up to what they are trying to present through these movies anyways. The collection does have a few familiar names, however as mentioned in the other reviews - are merely abridged clips of previous work, and I would advise avoiding seeing a low quality recording of the third act of a nice film you are better off seeing in full.
Given the massively disrespectful and borderline ignorance of the message it displays, and executes quite half-heartedly, I wasn't disappointed due to the very few expectations I had, but it was very much ashamed I wasn't 100% entertained (sorry these posh short film anthologies just aren't for me). I can sort of understand the reasoning behind the message they have for us here, given how cinema has grown, fatiguing audiences and aren't as risky, experimental or as original as they used to be. Movie goers are conditioned to accept the familiar, the nostalgia of what was a success yesteryear. Among many other very valid points on the current industry and mainstream market for films. But I just can't relate when it fails to ignore that with cinema's popularity, it very much is a business, as well as an art form, with large scale productions, as much as it is an art form. And there will always be audiences, and a place for the experimental and very early methods of filmmaking in general, as long as "art" exists.
Honestly, if you have an hour to kill, I'd say there a multitude of alternative methods to spend those 60 minutes, but if you really want to see this, check out the ending where the whole thing goes up in flames (in both senses of the phrase), but from me however, this is a hard pass. The gimmick, I mean, the concept is fantastic regardless.
