Short of the Week – Night Fishing L D March 27, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tRlqPQ7dAw&t=267s Made with his brother Chan-kyong, Park Chan-wook's cacophonous avant-garde short journeys into the spirit world to explore notions of embodiment and...
Short of the Week – Sweet Maddie Stone Sinead McCausland March 20, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/154873241 Brady Hood’s realist NFTS short film, Sweet Maddie Stone, proves the electrifying force of the realist genre. The story is simple, but its protagonist is not; Jessica...
Short of the Week – Home James Andrews March 13, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhrWuMzK7Mo An average British family are getting ready for a trip. Mum and Dad are rounding up their two young children, checking their route online and loading a...
Short of the Week – The Bigger Picture Carmen Paddock March 6, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/203126235 The Bigger Picture, a National Film and Television School production, reached far more than the course markers – it won the 2014 Annecy Cristal for a Graduation Film, the...
Short of the Week – Whale Heart Henry Gatrell February 27, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/203116933 Written and directed by Robert Allen and animated by a team of third-year students at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Whale Heart tells the story of a father and son,...
CEL Mates: Rango Calum Baker February 23, 2017 CEL Mates, Features, Independent It is difficult these days to associate Hollywood with pleasant surprises. Releases are so aggressively micromanaged and carefully marketed, pre-marketed, and teased out that even when a blockbuster you...
Short of the Week – Cracked Screen: A Snapchat Story Phil W. Bayles February 20, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/202796971 Social media and cinema have never been the cosiest of bedfellows. Most films that have directly tackled the ubiquity of things like Facebook and Twitter tend to go down the...
Short of the Week – SCION James Andrews February 13, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/116816457 A hitman thriller with a sci-fi edge, SCION is a precise and slickly produced piece that feels almost like an extended trailer for a longer film. Like a lot of good science...
Short of the Week – Crack Phil W. Bayles February 6, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/111952478 From the biting political satire of Borat to the biting comedy horror of What We Do in the Shadows, the mockumentary format has endured over the years because of its...
Short of the Week – Project X Kambole Campbell January 30, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/193562415 With the recent onslaught of worrying executive actions from the new Trump administration (coupled with awful implications concerning freedom of press), it could be easy to...
Short of the Week – HERO Phil W. Bayles January 23, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQZe6y8eaDA Superheroes, like the gods and myths of old that predate them, are steeped in formula and archetypes. Dom Fera understands this, because Adam, the protagonist...
Short of the Week – Listen Henry Gatrell January 16, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/196593911 Listen presents several different issues through a singular conflict: a petrified mother, trapped in a violent relationship looking for protection from the police; a...
Short of the Week – Last Letters David Brake January 9, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/195284427 As a father exhales deeply, mournfully, halfway through Last Letters, he holds himself together enough to reflect on 14 months of suffering. Having moved to create a change...
Short of the Week – Memory Box Tom Bond January 2, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/183213801 On its most basic level, Memory Box is a stylish and thought-provoking sci-fi short, but it’s given added meaning when you learn that co-director Aaron Aites passed away...
Short of the Week – Before Passing Patrick Nabarro December 26, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/149684766 Before Passing, Polish-Australian director Bianca Lucas’s debut short, showcases a highly measured - almost stately - command of the medium: the sure sign of someone who...
