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The Found Drama entries: "conceptual, conceptually unfilmable," the zenith of dumb stasis

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texture · UNDATED (B.S.–YW)

  • When: UNDATED (scattered across the B.S. and Year-of-the-Whopper stretch of the filmography as undated, unfilmed entries)
  • What: In the filmography the "Found Drama" pieces appear as bare numbered titles (Found Drama I, II, III... V, VI... IX, X, XI — no IV, VII, or VIII), tagged "conceptual, conceptually unfilmable. UNRELEASED." Per Hal, Found Drama was "probably the historical zenith of self-consciously dumb stasis, but which audiences never actually even got to hate, for a-priori reasons" — i.e. the anticonfluential logic pushed to a vanishing point where there is nothing to watch. The unfilmable film is the purest anticonfluential object.