Short of the Week – In A Heartbeat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2REkk9SCRn0 Among the three-hour, exposition-heavy blockbusters it can be easy to forget how much can be done with just a few minutes and no dialogue at all. In a...
Short of the Week – Firebase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm0V24IEHao Earlier this year, Neill Blomkamp – the man behind the brilliant District 9 and the criminally underrated Chappie – founded Oats Studios: an independent...
Short of the Week – The Typist
https://vimeo.com/222274236 The Typist mixes dramatisations of Otto Bremerman’s 1994 historical society interview and his 1950s interviewing of gay sailors with stock footage to great effect,...
Short of the Week – Balloonfest
https://vimeo.com/223715406 In a documentary that could just as easily be a Christopher Guest film, director Nathan Truesdell pulls together archive footage of a frankly bizarre event that occurred in...
Short of the Week – War & Cheese
https://vimeo.com/170083208 On August 7 2014, Oleg Sirota heard how his beloved Russia was banning the import of all Western cheeses; a retaliation to the sanctions forced upon them for their invasion...
Short of the Week: It’s All Right, It’s OK
https://vimeo.com/223333998 Winner of Sundance 2016’s Special Jury Award, director Jim Cummings is back with a trio of short films created for First Look Media. Each of the shorts are shot in just one...
Short of the Week: Martin
https://vimeo.com/channels/shortoftheweek/220985345 Norfolk seems the last place on earth where the apocalypse could start. In Sholto Crow’s comedy-drama Martin, however, a man’s quiet treasure-hunting...
Short of the Week – Much Better Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCq6tbwHN0U Never will you have watched a short film before that says so much without saying anything at all. Following the adventures of a lonely bookmark, who is...
Short of the Week – Mariner
https://vimeo.com/219933301 Based on writer, director and producer Thyrone Tommy's own experiences, Mariner tells the mesmerising tale of Nate, a young navigation cadet taking his final college exams. A...
Short of the Week – Over
https://vimeo.com/121667533 Cinema's main purpose is not just to tell a story, but the story of a person. When these stories and people are shrouded in mystery, they become more fascinating to...
Short of the Week – Strawberries Will Save The World
https://vimeo.com/216918144 The world is a bloody scary place sometimes, and even our beloved Short of the Week section can’t escape that fact. Too often recently, our shorts have dealt with heavy...
Poetry in Motion: The Animation of Michaël Dudok de Wit
If you haven't done so before, we'd recommend watching each of these brief shorts as you go through. The shortest is 2:32 and the longest is around eight minutes. Writer-director Michaël Dudok de Wit...
Short of the Week – Good Crazy
https://vimeo.com/216850224 What does it mean to be crazy? And what does it cost to be good? Writer/director/star Rosa Salazar's charming comedy takes a sideways look at those questions, as well as...
Short of the Week – The Afghan Bruce Lee
https://vimeo.com/196163571 December 2014. That’s when Abbas Alizada had his 15 seconds of fame. From simply glancing at him, you can see why. Aged 21, the martial artist from Afghanistan was the...
Short of the Week – Face Lift
https://vimeo.com/214617676 In 2017 body image issues among young adults are a very real problem, with unrealistic beauty standards for women and men plastered across billboards and the media in...