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Filmmaker Creates New Genre Designed to Make You Fall Asleep

Just when you thought every type of film had been done before, filmmaker Sondra Lowell has pioneered an entirely new genre called “Film Sleepy.” As the name suggests, her films are slow and boring by design, and meant to induce audiences to sleep. To Lowell’s credit, she started creating these films in order to play to her strengths after receiving unrelenting criticism from her professors and peers while taking film classes at UCLA. If only more film students would take criticism so constructively. That said, aren’t there enough movies that already unintentionally fall into this genre?

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Filmmaker Creates New Genre Designed to Make You Fall Asleep