Talk:Screenlife

Sickhouse

This movie should not be in the list. There is no computer screen at all. It belongs more in the found footage category. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Meorioa3 (talk • contribs) 19:59, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Contributions of Bekmambetov

Do you think the history section focuses too much on him and not other screenlife creators? 2001:4453:5F7:6400:1DD8:5103:C8A8:F359 (talk) 07:56, 11 August 2022 (UTC)

Not to mention it says Unfriended was the "first full-length screenlife film" when it clearly shows it wasn't, right here in this article alone. The Den was just as long as Unfriended and came out a year before it, and Open Windows was longer and came out before it. 🤨 I think he feels ownership of the genre (which has a terrible name, screen-, sure, but -life? No, that sounds awful for the name of the genre). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.242.36.241 (talk) 01:36, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

I’ve checked the history and it turns out a paid editor connected to the infamous User:Bodiadub is behind the pro-Bekmambetov edits. Some professional cleanup is definitely required here. 49.144.200.182 (talk) 10:23, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Took an axe to much of it. If the creator of the advertorial disagrees they can come here and vouch for it. 86.16.89.189 (talk) 21:09, 3 August 2025 (UTC)

Examples

The "Examples" section needs to contain only works explicitly described as "screenlife". The older films seem to be retroactively classified as such, without citations. I searched Proquest for the term and found, in the early 2000s, only references to a company called Screenlife LLC that makes Scene It? games, not to the storytelling form. White 720 (talk) 19:10, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

Besides being unsourced as you point out here, The whole thing was a spam magnet and had grown to ridiculousness size. I removed it per WP:NOTDIRECTORY. - MrOllie (talk) 17:43, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

It's a shame all the examples were removed. Luckily, I can go into the history and view (and bookmark) the older page. 150.143.68.49 (talk) 11:38, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

I guess the real problem(atic issue) is that the original title of this wikientry was a quite neutral and all-encompassing "desktop film" (or "computer screen film"), but on Aug, 21st 2021 it was changed to "Screenlife" - which is an interesting neologism derived from a specific moviemaking manifesto/movement [ see https://screenlifer.com/2025/01/08/history-screenlife *] but at the same time is also a keyword strongly connected with a series of similar or interconnected films produced by the Bazelevs company since 2015 [ see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazelevs_Company ]; this is probably why the new page title could result confusing (if not vaguely promotional), making at the same time difficult and slippery the very idea of assembling a proper list of examples based on the "screenlife-like" criteria (when it comes to contemporary style and shared visual strategies) and not, for example, grouped under some broader and chronologically accurate definition like "screencast storytelling" or "screen-based / screen-recorded narrative". In my humble opinion it would be a good idea to first replace the original title, and then proceed with a closer evaluation of the films & shorts to include in a detailed but reasonable examples list; with no examples or reference to actual works that started the format and developed it throughout the years, it would be very incomplete and poor as an multimedia entry..

• NB: ironically (and/or in total full-circle style) the screenlifer page linked above features a pretty long list of movies belonging to the overall genre (spanning from 2000 to 2025) which is almost identical to the one that has just been removed from this very page!

AlbertoNMP (talk) 02:24, 4 September 2025 (UTC)