zatojones
Actually what happens is that most kids who go to art school are terminally narcissistic and usually not very bright, so they all end up making ridiculous vanity pieces that do little more than stroke their and their friends' egos. Add to that the thrill of exploratory sexuality no longer bound by living at home with their folks and you get this sort of dreck. Later on they learn about irony and it only gets worse.

futurebot
Actually what happens is that an inevitable subset of any academic / professional demographic you can think of can be labelled IDIOTS, except for the architects and engineers because they are arrows of longing to the gold-plated ubermensch right? But especially those faggy art students, and also people who study the humanities. Man I got all the education I needed in REAL WORLD UNIVERSITY, where our Latin motto is SPEAK ENGLISH, THIS IS AMERICA, ASSHOLE.

oswaldtheluckyrabbit
YEAH YOU ENGLISH/ART FAGGOTS YOU ARE NEVER GOING TO GET A JOB EVER OH AND COULD YOU EDIT THIS PAPER FOR ME BECAUSE I CAN'T STRING TWO WORDS TOGETHER.

I do know for a fact that my last boss got fed up with business/marketing majors, because they were, in his words, "morons."

oswaldtheluckyrabbit
But this video is shit. It reminds me of that film the art teacher made in Ghost World.

baleen

It becomes much more painful when you consider that this girl probably dropped a good $30,000 on this thing, perhaps more, and probably sends it to festivals where it torments people in real-time.

zatojones
I studied the humanities. I have a B.A. I used to hang around with a lot of art school kids (my university has a separate art school). That is how I know this about art students: they throw good parties but they're mostly a bunch of catty retards who make really bad art until they graduate at which point trying to make a living without actually having any real skill takes up most of their time.

Unmerciful Crushing Force
I'm a film major. I've made plenty of shorts. While some self-indulgence in any student film is a given and even kind of encouraged, this is the sort of shit that gets you laughed at. Even by your own crew.

It also leads to you alienating people as you go on in your studies.

The thing that scares me is that this gal had quite a crew up her sleeve, whereas anyone else's self-indulgent projects. The key to it that your typical professional will usually tell you is to make it into something that other people might enjoy seeing.

This fails at that. This fails like that short film on "pain" someone did. Fails like that one-take "short" about guys playing cards to shitty music. It's not even interestingly bad like that fucking Wonder Woman thing someone gave to us.

YES I AM FAGGING OUT LET ME ENJOY MY LIFE PLEASEEEEE

Aelric
it's not even a proper South African white accent, but more like an "ART!" accent, also interchangeable with teenage wiccan's and vampire LARPer's fake accents. i wish to god i could post audio examples so you would know just what i mean.

i would have rather looked 20 minutes of the word "ART!" scrolling around the screen.

zatojones
This chick is clearly an art student, not a women's study major, so no. And also it's not 1996.

happy_ending
zato, baby. She is being RETRO.

baleen


So she hired a professional DP to shoot her film. Who cares? Does it really effect how unbearable the content is?

zatojones
I will agree that if you mute the sound the video does improve slightly.

Unmerciful Crushing Force
You wouldn't mind if I picked your brain sometime, would you? oneiro at gmail dot com sir.

And yes, I understand that there's some nice, reel-worthy DPing going on here. Certainly 100 times better than I could ever dream of doing, but like baleen said, ultimately a film is (and honestly, should be) judged by people on its merits as a whole.

coprolalia
I didn't see any DPing in this. That would have made it way more interesting.

Keefu
I couldn't bear to watch more than a few seconds of this. Thus it gets 5 stars for being awful.