“Old ideas don’t self-destruct. This one does.”

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“Old ideas don’t self-destruct. This one does.”

A Micro-Era Pitch

Essence

Ultra-lean, creator-owned films that break the spell of the Streaming Era


“Nova Nights” Convention


The rite of passage: Limited communal screenings any viable venue

 Theater,  warehouses, rooftops, churches, backrooms—anywhere with seats and a screen.

Live voices after the credits. A shared pulse in the dark.

A film earns the Indie Nova badge when it demands this ritual.

Theater or oblivion.

The Era’s Final Metric is the Indie Nova  self-imposed litmus test—a bold, optional gauntlet thrown down to prove the micro-era.

What it means, step by step:

  1. Not required, but revered No filmmaker has to do this. All Indie Nova films already qualify by starting with Nova Nights and embodying the essence (lean, risky, creator-driven). The self-destruct clause is voluntary—a choice made by someone willing to risk total erasure.

  2. The do-or-die model (original covenant)

    • At least one Indie Nova film must voluntarily embrace the original do-or-die self-destruct model—a communal threshold of strangers in the dark, or permanent oblivion.

    • If it fails, the master is permanently locked: encrypted files, auto-deleting decryption key, no streaming, no VOD, no re-release—ever.

    • It’s erased from IMDb, Letterboxd, festival histories. Crew under NDA. It becomes cinema non grata—as if it never existed.


  1. Why it matters This isn’t punishment—it’s proof of conviction. In an age of safety nets and algorithmic insurance, one film saying “I’d rather die than compromise” validates the entire era. It shows the communal ritual isn’t just nostalgia; it’s non-negotiable.

  2. Shared victory When one film meets the challenge and survives (or even if it fails but tries in earnest), every other Indie Nova film—those that played it safer, went to streaming later, or scaled differently—shares the glory. The era proves it wasn’t theoretical. Someone lived the extreme. The dare was real. 

  3. The era ends with a bang, not a fade-out Indie Nova (2025–2035) is time-boxed. When 2035 hits, it’s over—no extensions, no sequels. But if the Final Metric is achieved, the micro-era closes with a legend “We made films that could vanish forever—and one of us meant it”