The Unnamed Footage Festival, held from March 25-30, celebrates the in-world camera genre, particularly found footage horror. This year's festival was notable for its community-driven success, with the highest-attended film being Robbie Smith’s 'I Don't Like It Here,' linking back to the festival's network. Recent films like 'Outwaters' and 'We're All Going to the World's Fair' indicate a revival in innovative storytelling within this genre, countering a past dominated by low-quality imitators. The sense of camaraderie and shared history among creators highlighted at the festival distinguishes it from mainstream horror audiences.
This year's festival boasted the highest-attended film in the entire history of UFF. That was thanks to Robbie Smith's I Don't Like It Here, whose popularity had little to do with any apparent tendrils reached out to the other side of horror fandom and more to do with the fact that everyone involved in its making had been involved in UFF in some way.
Yet, what most struck me this year was how tight and insular the found-footage community felt. These people had forged bonds long before bandwaggoners like myself started looking to low-budget shaky-cam horror to find the next most vital thing in film.
This latter film, and other recent successes like Robbie Banfitch's Outwaters and Jane Schoenbrun's We're All Going to the World's Fair point to new and interesting directions in a genre that spent much of the aughts being reviled thanks to cheap and easy imitators of found footage's most famous product, The Blair Witch Project.
The festival, which took place this year March 25-30 at 4 Star Theater, celebrates the genre broadly referred to as "in-world camera," most famously including the found footage genre of horror.
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