Short of the Month: Landline
https://vimeo.com/326306801 As the month of Pride commences, it is not a time simply to market different-coloured food and drink packaging. It's a chance for LGBTQ+ celebration, protest, and to remind...
Short of the Month: Piccole Avventure Romane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06uqeJzpadA Piccole Avventure Romane translates through Google to "Little Roman Adventures". And 'little' is exactly what this film is: there is very little dialogue,...
Short of the Month: Bogeyman
https://vimeo.com/243452948 Often short films can feel gimmicky – little more than directorial calling-cards centred around singular visual conceits. Polish-Australian filmmaker Bianca Lucas, whose Before...
Short of the Month: O Matko!
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/304823620 Within the arena of the short film some filmmakers – perhaps free from large budgets and plot conventions – find the comfort to be more expressive and...
Short of the Month: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x569sd9 Dr Seuss’ beloved Christmas tale may not be as essential to UK holiday programming as The Snowman, but its two versions this millennium – the second, starring...
Short of the Month: Long Way Back Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD3-XG2Z4Pg Talented siblings Jeff Nichols (director of Mud, Midnight Special, and Loving) and Ben Nichols (lead guitarist for the ‘country-punk rock’ band Lucero)...
Short of the Month – Theo and Celeste
https://vimeo.com/270611565 A blend of stop-motion puppets and live action, Theo and Celeste sees two friends asking increasingly absurd questions that then become a reality for them. Always beginning with...
Short Of The Month – What Is Beauty?
https://vimeo.com/channels/bestofthemonth/258828793 In What Is Beauty? Filmmaker Anna Ginsburg runs us through a two minute history of the definition of the beautiful woman in art and media, all the way...
Short of the Week – Random Walks
https://vimeo.com/272473179 For millennia, European borders have wrought havoc on countless lives, whether it be through war, imperialism or a toxic mixture of both. In giving its subjects the chance to...
Short of the Week – Ten Meter Tower
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/154583964 If you were invited to jump from a 10 meter high diving board, would you go for it, or would you chicken out? This is what documentary filmmakers Axel...
Short of the Week – I Heart NY
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/270244268 New York is one of the planet’s most recognisable places – largely thanks to the infinite films, television shows, and plays set across its five...
Short of the Week – Stems
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/264137664 Packing wonder, insight and gut-punch sentimentality into two minutes is a herculean task, but with just some twigs, wire and a handful of dry leaves...
Short of the Week – The Old Ways
https://vimeo.com/237253619 Nhi Dang is a documentarian making travelogues like no others. Based out of Saigon, her journeys across the globe have taken her from Paris to Indonesia and everywhere in between...
Short of the Week – Three Red Sweaters
https://vimeo.com/257555221 Martha Gregory’s short documentary Three Red Sweaters came to fruition when she asked herself the question: how are our memories changing now that we have the ability to...
Short of the Week – Writer’s Workshop
Ryan Francis Johnson's short film Writer's Workshop takes an ingenious comedic premise and cranks it up to the point of absurdity. Aspiring writer Jeremy (Grayson Low) tentatively shares a piece in a...