Princess ★☆☆☆☆

Review of 'Princess' which can be found here at Hull Film Competition.

Length: 02:43

Written & directed by Unknown

Genre: Documentary

Date: 2011

Rating: ★☆☆☆☆

Logline: The inner workings of some sort of old steam engine.

Found this on the Hull Film website amongst the submissions for their online short film competition. Unfortunately they neglected to post any information regarding who created it and as the film itself has no credits, neither am I. The only drawback of which is that you won't be able to avoid coming across other works by the filmmaker in the future.

This is filmmaking at its bare bones. No dialogue, narration, commentary. No plot, structure, soundtrack or storyline. It's just a montage of shots. And not very interesting ones at that. The lack of information is startling and the audience is left to unravel these images and to form some sort of conclusion themselves. After nearly three minutes of different angles on some kind of ye olde mechanical engine, we are probably less informed than we were at the beginning. Princess is clearly the name of the machine but as to what it does and what it's for, I couldn't tell you. May as well have looked at a photograph of the thing.

Best Bit: The title.

Worst Bit: No point to it whatsoever.

Final thought: So what are we looking at here?

Read a condensed review of this film on Twitter here.