reptile12 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 26, 2022 7:10 am
lol Thanks but how the hell do you find all of these super obscure shorts/films if you don't mind sharing?
Sure, I don't mind... so start at google image serach with something like... "A/THE little girl / schoolgirl" "film festival" "feature film" "2022" "INSERT ANOTHER KEYWORD SUCH AS SUMMERTIME, SWIMMING, GROWING UP, COMING OF AGE, PRECOCIOUS, WAR, DRUGS, STREET KID, SPAIN, ITALY ETCETC HERE". It's likely that any before 2022 have already been found so set search results to LAST YEAR.
[Another very good keyword variation/addition can include part of a sentence that would be written in a film description, such as "a girl growing up", "his daughter", "her daughter", "his little sister", "a girl spends her summer", "she discovers", "spends her time" etc etc for the longer phrases Google will cut them anyway as exact phrase quoted will be ignored for small results. Unfortunately, as with YouTube, results tend towards popularity... which brings everyone into the mainstream for control *cough* *cough* going off topic now]
Anyway. Then search.
Scroll down the results and look for any unfamiliar image. Then click on the image. It will open up a new tab, with a whole bunch of images related to the image. Google AI also includes images that look like the original image, and also uses the original keywords. So you get images related to the original image, and some new ones that look similar. So, then you might see some new content. The new image link also spawns new images with new image links, more related to the clicked image, then if you click that image you get more image links more and more related to the new image you clicked on, but also related to keywords, so it's like a web that continues.
It's all related to image trends on Google, and an appropriate use of keywords. It takes a while to figure out which keywords google takes and doesn't take. If Google spits out results more heavily inclined towards a certain keyword and generates similar results that you dont want, then just modifiy or MINUS another keyword that is related to the unrelated images. For example the film An Cailín Ciúin comes up on almost ALL searches I do, so then just add "-Ciúin" to the search terms.
But google does most of the work really... not only finding related images, but finding others based on image type preference. I'm assuming some strong AI is working here(?), or perhaps just tracking trends, who would know.
Oh, and many of the obscure images that come on the google image search, but that get few hits on google just lead to a random .jpg/.png with no info. You can print screen, then paste to paint, save, then reverse image that thing (
https://www.labnol.org/reverse/). But wouldn't advise this if any nudity present, although you can secure delete, but only on old hard drives.
You can also use the results to find related films. I'll give an example...
Google image searching "film festival" "boy and girl" "feature film" "2022" [past year]
Gives an image link to this image...
[Image]
Not seen it before so I click on the image, which leads to this webpage...
https://www.20minmax.com/2021/a-holiday-from-mourning/
Which not only has the original film, but 2 more films that could be interesting here, HEADING SOUTH, and COME FIND ME. Which I don't think are listed at FLM. STEPHANIE - already posted.
So then you have 3 new posts here. Find the trailers on VIMEO / YT, then if interesting, post with IMDB link.
On the same keywords search (me being lazy now lol)...
https://vimeo.com/746914979
https://www.dohafilminstitute.com/filmf ... ilms/dunia
https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/1 ... atar-films
https://www.dohafilminstitute.com/filmf ... ad-a-dream
etc etc etc.
But then, just for fun, let's switch the "boy and girl" search term to "girl and boy"...
"film festival" "girl and boy" "feature film" "2022"
Immediately leads to...
https://breakingthroughthelens.co.uk/fi ... tlist-2022
Which has LITTLE LYING WILD, IF I HAD TWO LIVES, THE PILL (not posted at FLM).
That's how it all works. Just change the keywords and follow the trail.
Enjoy
I'll let some other person do these if they are of interest