Maybeland: Cyborg Stephen O'Nion February 17, 2015 Features, Independent, Maybeland You know what best symbolises an apocalypse? Fire. Ideally with a dash of brimstone. Spurting from the ground for no discernible reason, springing from pockets with an obscure source, burning continuously in...
Short of the Week – If I Die On Mars David Brake February 16, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/119124588 "If I die on Mars, it would be great". For a tale of astronomical distance, in an almost science fiction reality, If I Die on Mars has an altogether more human, warming...
Short of the Week – POLIS David Brake February 9, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week http://vimeo.com/117933260 A teaser of the highest quality, POLIS instantly intrigues with its narrative, effects and concept impressing simultaneously. Blasting into the collective consciousness...
Short of the Week – Eye Of The Storm David Brake February 2, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 1 Comment http://vimeo.com/19659763 Can a music video be counted as art? In the case of Eye of the Storm, silence, serenity and solitude adjoin to testify to the positive. With no dialogue, one singular human...
Short of the Week – My Wrongs #8245-8249 & 117 Conor Morgan January 26, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week http://vimeo.com/17438937 The warped mind of black comedy genius Chris Morris won a BAFTA for My Wrongs #8245-8249 & 117, a title that refers to the most recent in a long list of wrongdoings committed...
Maybeland: District 9 Phil W. Bayles January 21, 2015 Features, Independent, Maybeland 4 Comments Ever since 1897, when HG Wells first wrote of Martians attacking London in The War of the Worlds, science fiction has dreamed up many an idea of what might happen when we finally make contact with life from...
Short of the Week – He Took His Skin Off For Me Cameron Ward January 19, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 1 Comment https://vimeo.com/116498390 If you love something, flay it free. Based on the short story by fellow graduate Maria Hummer, Ben Aston’s visually stunning graduation film, He Took His Skin Off For Me,...
Maybeland: Barbarella Madeline Joint January 16, 2015 Features, Independent, Maybeland Barbarella (1968) is campy '60s madness – hilariously dirty, adorably silly and oddly captivating. In the far future, humanity has moved past sex, war and jealousy and created a universal harmony of love -...
Short of the Week – Every Runner has a Reason David Brake January 13, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 1 Comment Ronnie Goodman is a fit, athletic, marathon-running, 53-year-old homeless man; the incongruence of this sentence provides Every Runner Has A Reason its fascinating hook. Despite a bijou running time,...
Short of the Week – Lost Cubert David Brake January 5, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week The arrival of a new year gives individuals a chance to re-evaluate their place in life, in a bid to tackle the common felt modern malaise. In Lost Cubert the protagonist is the exaggerated embodiment...
Short of the Week – Caldera Cameron Ward December 15, 2014 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/62596239 Evan Vierra’s ethereal 2012 piece, Caldera, expertly explores the seemingly unliveable space between fantasy and actuality. Having witnessed firsthand his father’s own...
Short of the Week – Between Bears Cameron Ward December 8, 2014 Features, Independent, Short of the Week http://vimeo.com/13776542 Eran Hilleli's graduation film from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design is said to be 'a debt to my childhood, and other lives I hoped I lived.' Hilleli's clean, simple, and...
Short of the Week – Abe Cameron Ward December 1, 2014 Features, Independent, Short of the Week http://vimeo.com/64114843 Rob McLellan’s 8 minute exploration of cold obsession under the chilling light of self-awareness finds new material for the affectionate sociopath, chillingly augmenting the...
CEL Mates: It’s Such a Beautiful Day Nick Evan-Cook November 28, 2014 CEL Mates, Features, Independent 1 Comment Consisting of three 20-minute animated shorts, animator Don Hertzfeldt’s 2012 masterpiece It’s Such a Beautiful Day packs more pathos and melancholy into its one-hour tale of a stick man than most films...
Maybeland: Equilibrium Madeline Joint November 27, 2014 Features, Independent, Maybeland As is customary in dystopian cinema, it is hard to figure out what Kurt Wimmer’s Equilibrium (2002) is in favour of as opposed to what it condemns. Starring Christian Bale as John Preston (most likely no...
