No crew, no budget, selfie styled films: The monotony of lockdown cinema

One of Netflix’s upcoming releases is an anthology, a bunch of lockdown films made in the last three months by an eclectic list of filmmakers from across the world. With no crew, no budget, films self-ie styled, perhaps this is the way forward? My first reaction to the trailer of this film was it looked good for a lockdown film but if I didn’t know that, it perhaps would have passed on as one more film I would select to see but never actually see it. Why would I not watch it? Because life can’t just be a one-dimensional narrative.