Short of the Week – To Build a Fire Henry Gatrell January 22, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/246869455 The adaptation of Jack London’s highly-regarded short story To Build a Fire effectively captures the story of a man's last frozen moments. The text and film shift from one...
Cel Mates: The Book of Life Rory Steabler January 18, 2018 CEL Mates, Features, Independent The Book of Life bears more than a passing resemblance to Pixar’s Coco, out this week. Obviously, both are based around the Mexican tradition of the Day of the Dead, and involve protagonists going on a...
Short of the Week – Night James Andrews January 15, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/250118913 Racism, privilege and sexual inequality are all issues becoming increasingly talked about and fought against. With Night, Dutch filmmaker Joosje Duk dissects all three...
CEL Mates: World Of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden Of Other People’s Thoughts Tom Bond January 10, 2018 CEL Mates, Features, Independent There are certain stories that only animation can tell properly: the tale of a roomful of toys reuniting with their owner, a clownfish’s journey to find his son, or a version of Hamlet featuring lions. Now...
Short of the Week – A Band of Thieves Rhys Handley January 8, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/246729336 One of the key pillars of postmodernist thinking is that there is no longer such thing as an original idea. We have too much culture and too much art, now it...
Short of the Week – Baby Grotesque Cathy Brennan January 1, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/248663904 Channelling the work of comics artist Michael DeForge, Daniela Espinosa has lovingly crafted a dark fairy-tale with Baby Grotesque. Set in a dark, foreboding forest, we are...
Short of the Week – Florence Has Left the Building Rory Steabler December 25, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/247645868 Merry Christmas! Why not celebrate the festive season with the residents of Marigold House Assisted Living Facility as they enjoy their annual Elvis concert? Why not...
Short of the Week – He Could’ve Gone Pro Louise Burrell December 18, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/245059039 He Could've Gone Pro may be set at Christmastime, but don’t go in expecting a big dose of festive cheer. This is a sad, touching, and thought-provoking short film that...
Short of the Week – It Is My Fault Cathy Brennan December 11, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/243940584 Beijing based animator Liu Sha conjures up a fantastic netherworld of digital spew with It Is My Fault. Just like Happiness last week, this is a four minute, dialogue-free...
Short of the Week – Happiness Carmen Paddock December 4, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/244405542#at=2 Hot on the heels of Black Friday, a film which takes a direct stab at the consumer ‘holiday’ and the culture which it personifies might be a bit on the nose, but...
Short of the Week – Submarine Rhys Handley November 27, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/233685439 A community drifting apart can feel like the end of the world. This is usually an illusion in the mind. In Mounia Akl’s award-winning short, the decomposition of the...
Short of the Week – How To Lose Weight in Four Easy Steps Kambole Campbell November 20, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/149123295 Winkingly cribbing its title from those thinly veiled click-bait ads you normally make fun of, How To Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps is a pretty standard tale. Only, it's done...
Short of the Week – Learn: 1st World Problems Ellen Dwyer November 13, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/238954750 Learn:1st World Problems is a satire exploring the narcissistic world of the creative industries, in this case fashion, uncovering not only the duplicitous traits needed to...
Short of the Week – Fish Louise Burrell November 6, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/240040166 Sitting somewhere between a fictional drama and a documentary, Fish tells the story of a mother-of-three struggling to retain a relationship with the...
Short of the Week – Fox and the Whale David Brake October 23, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/237551523 Nowadays, pretty visuals, compensating for a lack of substance, can go a long way for some shorts. One suspects there's a hope that the short running time and a few...
