BUDi, Days 2 and 3
In the past three days, my wife and I have watched 23 animated, fiction and documentary films from around the world at BUDi. Not one of them was a lemon, and the whole experience lasted no more than two hours each day. And, as my wife never fails to remind me, they were all completely free. She's ready for next year.
Seriously, though, I was impressed by both the festival and the movies. Low-key, certainly, that is, for a small staff, but the presentation was flawless. My wife is still waiting for the drawing for the free iPOD, but we did receive a free DVD of last year's winning films. But now, I wonder why anyone would watch a movie for two hours, when so many Hollywood (and Hallyu) films are so atrociously facile and factory-produced. In the age of YouTube and iPODs, who wants to sit in cinemas or even deal with the regional restrictions of the DVD? Like a day-long concert or a rock opera, what can a 2+ hour film give to the movie genre that a lean 5-minute cannot?
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1 year and 6 months ago
glad to see that at least one other expat made it out to this. I agree with your comments re the quality and particularly liked a Polish film called «Melodrama», which surprised me with an alert , stinging tale of a fresh teen in a hardknock world in Poland. The overall quality was due largely to the amount of international submissions. Not to say that Korean student filmmakers are slouches - because they are often decidedly not - but this BUDi they were outnumbered 3 to 1 by internationals due to an improved call for submissions process in place. Cheers,Misha
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