Personally I Find It Rude to Be Boring short film titles

Published June 22, 2025

Personally I Find It Rude to Be Boring is a 2024 short film directed by Derek Spencer and starring Rachel Rivera, Acacia Fisher, Dakota Loesch, Mike Merchant, and others.

The film titles were designed by YENCE Studio.

Derek Spencer’s director statement:

No one is a good person at 3 am. We stretch ourselves too far, we get too high, we abandon useful boundaries and norms as our cravings grow more desperate. The after-hours party is a liminal space between pleasure and danger, interesting and obnoxious, cool and cringe. We know this, but we yearn for the night out anyway. Because you never know what might happen. Because staying in is a concession to entropy and death. Because we’d all secretly rather be bad than boring.

Personally I Find It Rude to Be Boring is about cycles of pleasure-seeking. It’s about how we justify destructive behavior in search of ephemeral gratification. It’s about the solitude of pleasure—characters who can only look at themselves even as they are surrounded by friends. For me, it’s also about nostalgia. Current pleasure never feels as good as we remember past pleasure feeling. In a world still collectively processing the social damage done by a global pandemic, we ask: is it possible to feel as good as we remember feeling? And if we can, is it worth it?

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