FAQ

No.

Auntrolye is not a floating idea or stylistic mood, it is a codified genre with a defined framework, structural laws, and consistent narrative functions. Concepts can’t be tested for integrity; genres can. Auntrolye doesn’t just suggest how a story might feel it requires that the story’s structure obey a fixed relationship between perception, memory, and narrative causality. That makes it more than a concept. It makes it a cinematic language.

No.

Psychological thrillers often observe distorted minds from a distance. Auntrolye eliminates that distance. It does not depict psychology, it is psychology, made law. In thrillers, you watch a character lose control. In Auntrolye, you experience the world as if their loss of control is your reality. It’s not just about what a character thinks, it’s about how their thinking shapes what’s possible in the film. 

Because it obeys rules that no other genre demands.

Genres are not about originality, they’re about systemic coherence. Auntrolye meets that standard: it functions through internal perception, denies omniscient reality, and replaces objectivity with emotional structure. It passes the only test that matters, it produces repeatable, identifiable outcomes governed by specific laws. That makes it a genre in the truest cinematic sense. 

You’ll know by how the world is built, not how it looks.

A film is Auntrolye if the character’s mind is not just expressed, but structurally embodied. If time shifts not for style but because the character experiences memory as present, if logic collapses because their identity collapses, then the film is obeying Auntrolye law. It’s not about feeling surreal. It’s about structure being dictated by subjective logic. 

Not necessarily, but it is always unresolved.

Auntrolye often feels tragic because it deals with characters who can't escape their inner world. But tragedy is not a rule, internal consequence is. Even if the ending brings emotional clarity, it will never offer clean resolution, because the story is not framed around answers. It is framed around embodiment of experience. If that experience is painful, the film will reflect it. If it’s liberating, it will too, but on its own fractured terms. 

No, but it currently thrives there.

Auntrolye's framework can scale to any format, but it requires creative control and structural risk-taking, which short and independent films allow more easily. It’s not limited by form, it’s limited by artistic willingness to surrender control to character logic. As more filmmakers adopt the genre, its scale will expand. The system itself is medium-agnostic. 

Yes, if they obey the structure.

Auntrolye is not private property. It’s a system. But just like noir or neorealism, adopting the label requires respecting the rules. The genre welcomes others, but it requires them to build from within its legal framework, not just mimic its surface effects. Auntrolye is a space for innovation, not dilution. 

It stops being Auntrolye.

This isn’t a punishment, it’s categorization. Breaking a core rule (like including omniscient scenes or denying emotional causality) shifts the film into another genre, even if it retains similar themes. Auntrolye depends on fidelity to its internal architecture. Deviation doesn’t ruin the film, it just changes its category. 

It’s both, but never a trick.

Auntrolye traps characters in their own perception, and by design, traps the viewer in that perception too. But this is not manipulation. It’s immersion with consequence. The viewer isn’t being fooled, they’re being invited to feel what it means to be in the characters mind, struggles, and memories. That’s not a trap. That’s the experience. 

Yes, but only from the inside out.

Auntrolye can contain horror, romance, or thriller elements, but those genres must be filtered through the character’s mind. You cannot bolt Auntrolye onto a film. It must emerge from character logic. A horror scene can exist, but only if it is the character’s emotional projection of fear, not an objective threat. Genre fusion is possible, but Auntrolye must govern the perspective.