Sweding

So, what exactly is Sweding? Well, it's a kind of low-budget remake of an existing film; usually cut short so it only focuses on a few key scenes - often the scenes everyone remembers from the film. The idea of amateur versions of particular films has been kicking around for a while - but it was thanks to the film Be Kind Rewind (2008, Michel Gondry) that the idea really took off.

The plot of the film revolves around the two main characters who take it upon themselves to make low budget remakes of every film in their video store after all the originals are accidentally wiped. Amateur film-makers have shot their films in a similar way - usually in the same spirit as the original film, the films are done in a virtually no-budget, deliberately cheap and comical. Some use the lack of any money as a joke, others make jokes about the plot and spoof several famous scenes.

Sweding actually has nothing to do with swedes. In the film, a joke was made about the poor quality of the remakes compared to the originals, the excuse being that the films were the imported 'Swedish' version.