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Add Erēmīta (Anthologies) to the growing list of collected short films including Netflix s Homemade created during the pandemic. This hour-long program, made during the first lockdown, was compiled by filmmaker Sam Abbas. It features six shorts by cinematographers from around the world who were told to shoot on their cell phones without any lenses, rigs, or audio devices.
The program is mostly experimental, and is (as with most short anthology programs), a mixed bag. That is more an observation than a criticism; this kind of cinema is designed for sensorial appreciation. The entries in Erēmīta (Anthologies) eschew the set-up, suspense, payoff arc of narrative shorts and instead deliberately create a hazy, seductive, dreamlike feeling.