To understand the film’s underground status, one must look at the landscape of 2009. This was the year of Avatar , Inglourious Basterds , and the peak of the DVD era. Short films were the orphans of the industry. They played for one weekend at festivals like Clermont-Ferrand or Sundance, won a few awards, and then vanished into distribution limbo.
Before it evaporates completely.
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