Short of the Week – 3 Minutes Bertie Archer December 12, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/18612518 In this tight three minutes, director Ross Ching has shown us a fleeting fragment of a much larger story, leaving the viewer with burning questions as to what came before and...
Short of the Week – The Fly Phil W. Bayles December 5, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/139863591 Way back in 2003 director Edgar Wright shot the music video for Mint Royale's 'Blue Song', which starred Noel Fielding as a getaway driver waiting for three bank robbers...
Short of the Week – 160 Characters David Brake November 28, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/189536800 "A picture says a thousand words." So goes the age-old saying. Yet what can a limit of 160 characters achieve? Victoria Mapplebeck's minimalist, taut and frankly...
Short of the Week – M.A.M.O.N. (Latinos vs Donald Trump) Kambole Campbell November 21, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q__bSi5rBlw For a lot of people, it’s been a frustrating couple of weeks. With the result of the US election, there’s plenty of concern for how the next four years...
Short of the Week – Smoke That Travels Lina Jurdeczka November 14, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/189570347 What makes us want to tell the stories of our lives? Perhaps it’s the fear of being forgotten after we die. Maybe it’s about taking ownership of them, to avoid somebody...
Short of the Week – Very Lonely Cock Phil W. Bayles November 7, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week Don't let the provocative title fool you - Russian animator Leonid Shmelkov's Very Lonely Cock is a charming animated short which, while utterly bizarre, is also completely safe for work. We think....
Short of the Week – The Horribly Slow Murder With The Extremely Inefficient Weapon Phil W. Bayles October 31, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDvgL58h_Y A truly great parody is the one that doesn't require the audience to be familiar with any particular thing that it's mocking. It's why Airplane! remains one...
Short of the Week – Borrowed Time David Brake October 24, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/187257744 Perhaps there should be no real surprise in a Pixar animator’s penchant for twanging heartstrings with a perfectly placed pixel or two. Toys holding hands in a last...
Short of the Week – Domestic Policy Phil W. Bayles October 17, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/177713990 In just a few short weeks, America could elect its first ever female president. This should be a cause for celebration; a golden time in politics and a long-overdue victory...
Short of the Week – Thunder Road David Brake October 10, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/174957219 If you're going to do a short film based around the title of one of Bruce Springsteen’s best and most popular songs, you’d better do a good job. Luckily for Jim Cummings,...
Short of the Week – Bär Danielle Davenport October 3, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/174254407 Innovation in short films does not necessarily need to be characterised by alternative camera angles, outlandish CGI effects or narrative twists. Little things...
Short of the Week – Planet Unknown Joni Blyth September 26, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/183577091 Not enough sci-fi movies have adorable robots these days. Sure, Baymax and BB-8 are fab enough that we can forgive Ridley Scott for not giving Matt Damon a robo-buddy in The...
Short of the Week – The Voorman Problem Tom Bond September 19, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tacQ9-AtQRc&feature=youtu.be What if God was one of us? Just a bearded Tom Hollander living in a prison like one of us? This is the intriguing and preposterous concept on...
Short of the Week – Night Falls on Loserville David Brake September 12, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/136501465 In one of his frequent Facebook Q&As, Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn was asked for his advice on how to make it as a director. His one-line answer? "Make...
Short of the Week – The Present Phil W. Bayles September 5, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/jacobfrey/thepresent Based on a short comic strip by Fabio Coala called Perfection, Jacob Frey's animated short The Present plucks at the heartstrings in almost Pixar-esque fashion....
