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The Doors loitering pretentiously at the Morrison Hotel.

Kulendran Thomas’s big idea is to rebut the precious, humanist, nation-state-upholding concepts of creativity and individuality by making the most pretentiously mindless art possible.

Yes, there are certain companies or hiring managers who pretentiously recruit from prestigious schools.

In Best’s other festival entry, “Cat Capitalization,” her pet, Nube, turns to the internet to market his artistic talent, pretentiously thanking — in thought bubbles — mentors like the artists Mark Rothko and Vincent van Gogh.

“My role is not to teach,” he declares pretentiously.