When I was on the nominating jury for the Genie Awards, Canada's
version of the Academy Awards, about ten of us watched the year's
features and shorts to determine the final nominees in various
categories. One year there was a category for Best Experimental film.
We started watching the entries and as one of them began screening we
saw that it was a three minute or so trailer for a new Hollywood
movie. At the end of the trailer, it came on again, and a third time. Seeing from our notes that this was a 56 minute experimental film, we
asked the projectionist to take off the film and wind down it to see
what was up. After a few minutes he reported that the film was that
trailer, repeated over and over for the whole 56 minutes. Apparently
someone had found this large roll of trailers straight from a film lab
and entered it as an “experimental film.” Nice try, no nomination.
version of the Academy Awards, about ten of us watched the year's
features and shorts to determine the final nominees in various
categories. One year there was a category for Best Experimental film.
We started watching the entries and as one of them began screening we
saw that it was a three minute or so trailer for a new Hollywood
movie. At the end of the trailer, it came on again, and a third time. Seeing from our notes that this was a 56 minute experimental film, we
asked the projectionist to take off the film and wind down it to see
what was up. After a few minutes he reported that the film was that
trailer, repeated over and over for the whole 56 minutes. Apparently
someone had found this large roll of trailers straight from a film lab
and entered it as an “experimental film.” Nice try, no nomination.
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