Short of the Week – Balance Dave McLaughlin July 13, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CTesYaduBA&safe=active For those of us who grew up with the amusing antics of Wallace and Gromit, Balance can feel like the eerie, ghost-like shadow that haunts the dark...
Short of the Week – Sahar Bethany White July 6, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/alexanderfarah/sahar What happened to Sahar? Alexander Farah’s short lets the answer hang in gloomy ambiguity. Seething with family tensions, gender politics and the clash of...
Short Of The Week – Bringing Back the Light Danielle Davenport June 29, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/131506757 With subtlety, simplicity and restraint, Bringing Back the Light eschews patent ‘nature porn’ in favour of gentle storytelling. This didactic...
Short Of The Week – Denali Bertie Archer June 22, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/122375452 However you reacted to Marley & Me, prepare to be hit by a crashing wave of emotion. Denali is a tribute, a love letter, a farewell between two best friends; they have...
Making It Big: For The Love Of Spock David Brake June 16, 2015 Features, Independent, Making It Big "I have been - and always shall be - your friend." A line of true soaring beauty from an iconic character. Spock, born in 2230, in the city of Shi'Kahr on the planet Vulcan, is probably the most famous...
Short of the Week – Skwerl Rachel Brook June 15, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY After familiar establishing shots, unintelligible dialogue plunges viewers into disorientation. If cinema is about innovative communication of narrative...
Short of the Week – One Year Lease Bethany White June 8, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/111681045 "Chat lunatique": this fridge-magnet epithet encapsulates the irksome antagonist of this amusing short. Told almost exclusively through voicemails, One Year Lease tracks...
Maybeland – The Handmaid’s Tale Madeline Joint June 4, 2015 Features, Independent, Maybeland Welcome to another edition of Maybeland, where we explore some of the cinematic visions of the future. Here we examine the right-wing religious tyranny of The Handmaid's Tale. The U.S. is no more -...
Short of the Week – Fashionable Animal Madeline Joint June 1, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week It’s gorgeous; its gently flickering lights, exotic creatures and muted pinks, blues and greens move with the playful soundtrack. As a glorified advert it’s a wonderful little film: experimental,...
Short of the Week – Lovers Lookout David Brake May 25, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/106521626 Lovers Lookout is not surprising, nor suspenseful and far from thrilling. This short is a simple and obvious tale. Deftly handled, it looks at the torture one can inflict...
Making It Big: The Olympic Auditorium Project David Brake May 19, 2015 Features, Independent, Making It Big Located at 1801 South Grand Avenue, the Olympic Auditorium opened in 1924. It had it all. Sex, mobsters, boxing, punk rock, wrestling, roller derby and more. The Olympic was synonymous with action and...
Short of the Week – The Gift Patrick Taylor May 18, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://youtu.be/5eIMafROjyo Before Carl Rinsch embarked on the disastrous 47 Ronin, he brought us a short, sumptuous and intriguing vision of a futuristic Moscow. Notable for its eerie opening...
Short of the Week – An Object At Rest David Brake May 11, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/126177413 Riffing on Newton's first law of motion, An Object At Rest is a charmer. Rather than following the trope of a static figure desperate for freedom, this short heads the...
Short of the Week – The Black Hole Rachel Brook May 4, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/15759511 The anonymous office setting of The Black Hole, along with the all-to-recognisable experiences of tedium and frustration, anticipates the equally surreal world of Richard...
Short Of The Week – The Alchemist’s Letter Bertie Archer April 27, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/125527643 The Alchemist’s Letter is a beautiful, inventive animation, filled with detail. Ever evolving into new scenes, each adding another layer of artistry, this is the...
