Short of the Week – SALA: A Short Odyssey
https://vimeo.com/231635275 The latter years of teen life are all challenge, identity crisis, uncertainty; frustration and dissatisfaction plague almost everyone. But for others it’s harder –...
Short of the Week – 3000 Miles
https://vimeo.com/235664764 Leaving home in the 21st century is a strange paradox. Even when we are alone, our access to technology means we are forever tied to our loved ones. Even when we are apart,...
Short of the Week: Blade Runner: Black Out 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrZk9sSgRyQ It's easy to be skeptical about the implications that an expanded Blade Runner universe has - the franchising of a film that basically screamed about the dangers...
Short of the Week – Quand J’ai Remplacé Camille
https://vimeo.com/224657759 At One Room With A View, nothing excites us more than new talent. The thrilling prospect of discovering fresh, stimulating voices as they enter the world of film for the...
Short of the Week – Trespass
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/231710597 There have been plenty of films over the years that prove, time and again, that nothing good ever comes from a walk in the woods (at least not in the film...
Short of the Week – The Heist
https://vimeo.com/230559377 Summer 2017 has seen two excellent heist films – Baby Driver and Logan Lucky – in cinemas, so it seems appropriate to celebrate a four-minute spoof of the genre. The...
Short of the Week – The Last Time
We’ve all been there: standing around, minding your own business, something completely innocuous happens nearby and you’re thrown down the mental rabbit-hole. In Christine Hooper’s colourful...
Short of the Week – Compatibility
https://vimeo.com/231105192 Brooker’s Law states that any time an artist makes a statement about technology’s impact on our lives, someone will inevitably make a comparison to Black Mirror. It’s a...
Short of the Week – MANOMAN
https://vimeo.com/173524321 MANOMAN is a short film that viewers should watch more than once in order to grasp its smart, cinematic spectacle. Due to the film's surrealist humour, the viewer can easily...
Short of the Week – Hard Coffee
https://vimeo.com/227495263 Shot on one cartridge of 8mm film, with only in-camera edits allowed and no post-production, Hard Coffee is three and a half minutes of highly-caffeinated energy. Filmed as part...
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...