>The film must be shot where the narrative takes place.
This one really stands out by exculding whole genres and not really adding anything interesting to work around.
This one really stands out by exculding whole genres and not really adding anything interesting to work around.
And it excludes a lot less than its inspiration Dogme 95, which has as one rule "Genre movies are not acceptable."
I find that hilarious, like proclaiming that only other people have an ethnicity or an accent. Because of course Dogme is a genre of its own.
Though I’d argue that rom-com, period pieces, and biopics also are “genre”, at least to the extent a particular movie just paints by numbers within those styles.
One could also argue that certain genres simply won't ever work as an arthouse movie.
Space opera, high fantasy and bangsian fantasy are three that come to mind.
Under the rules you could attempt to shoot Resident Alien, but not Star Trek.