autistic queerthing from france. kitty fighting the puppy allegations. Asks welcome!
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man idk i just... i can't get behind big art with huge budgets and corporate PR campaigns anymore. if it makes me a snob so be it. but i need more art made by someone for an audience of themselves and maybe 50 people
i don't care about AAA gaming's latest flop, i don't care about Hollywood tax write-offs in the form of films, i don't care about Universal Music Group's latest industry plant, i don't carrrrrreeeeeeeeee give me something realllllllllllllllll
For decades, it has frustrated me to no end that I've known a lot of people who feel like this to different degrees (from "I'd rather go to the theater" to "scour the web for unfinished projects"), and despite so much technology and so much cooperation, there isn't a single website where people talk up random indie projects that they found.
The closest is horror films, where you "only" need to find a friendly actor on social media who likes working in that space, and they'll tell you everything going on in their city...
unless I've mistakened your points, there are sites for lots of niches actually! taking films for example, there's Cinemos and MUBI etc. that provide discussions for smaller films. just need some effort to look for the sites
I think (no guarantee after a month...) that I meant something like, when one of the big publishers (any medium) has something in the works, everybody knows about it and can follow most of the development process. If it's a big brand, you need to put work into not hearing every detail.
For independent work, though, what are we looking forward to? Nobody knows except the people working on those things. If you're lucky, it gets enough buzz after release that (as you rightly point out) a niche streaming service picks it up and maybe even talks about it, but it gets dumped in the pile with far more famous projects.
So, similar and related, but somewhat different contexts, I think.
