Short of the Week – Talking Cure Stephanie Watts August 29, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/167111872 Talking Cure is a short film that uses animated sketches to illustrate improvised dialogue from comedy improv group Starla and Sons. In a four-minute mishmash of quick-fire...
Short of the Week – Day 39 Tori Brazier August 22, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/125937761 Day 39 is a snapshot of modern-day warfare, focusing on one rookie US soldier on foot patrol with his platoon in a remote part of Afghanistan. It expertly captures the...
Short of the Week – Every Day My Dad Dies Danielle Davenport August 15, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/177559327 Everyday My Dad Dies tells a disorienting tale of love and loss. The trance-like short muddies direction; events seem linear, retrospective or even...
Short of the Week – My Sister’s Dollhouse Henry Gatrell August 8, 2016 Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/177375994 My Sister's Dollhouse is described in its tagline as "a parody of sorts." This perfectly captures the film's dry humour and lack of unneeded flash; there is...
Short of the Week – The Shining Star Of Losers Everywhere Tom Bond August 1, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/176459945 Things weren’t looking good in Japan. The year was 2003 and the nation was near the end of a period known as The Lost Decade. A stagnant economy and record unemployment were...
Short of the Week – Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded: Abbas Kiarostami Patrick Nabarro July 25, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19LQx_wbGTw One of the world’s great filmmakers, Abbas Kiarostami, died earlier this month. Among several superb directors in the Iranian new wave, Kiarostami shone...
Short of the Week – Onward Henry Gatrell July 18, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/155624292 Onward is an incredibly beautiful and intimate short documentary about a man named Konki and his family who live in the Altai Mountains of Western Mongolia....
Short of the Week – Edmond Henry Gatrell July 11, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/172911816 Edmond won the BAFTA Short Animation Award in 2016, which is both surprising and completely not. The film is at once brilliant and incredibly obscure. That...
Short of the Week – INSIDE Tom Bond July 4, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/172933813 Flickering into life like a forgotten SNES cartridge cutscene, INSIDE appears as a blocky, 16-bit, black-and-white mosaic. The words “Inside” and “Dreams” emerge to...
Short of the Week – 1500 Words David Brake June 27, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/114033533 A Thousand Words was a disastrous flop of a film, confined to development hell for two years before maturing into the eventual pile of manure that came to pass. By...
Short of the Week – Nix + Gerber Lina Jurdeczka June 20, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/165461598 When it comes to the spaces we live in, there are few topics as contested as clutter. While some people are devoted to and even thrive in the midst of creative chaos, others...
Short of the Week – The Arrival Dave McLaughlin June 13, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/166075559 The Arrival tells the story of a woman coming to a life-changing decision. We first encounter Anna arriving in a small café, viewed through the smudged glass of the...
Short of the Week – Grounded Henry Gatrell June 6, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/164940065 Lucas Durkheim's Grounded tells the story of a nameless soldier being thrust into a situation he has no context for. The basis of all his knowledge comes from propagandist...
Short of the Week – Tempête sur Anorak Rachel Brook May 30, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/89013451 Paul Cabon’s Tempête sur Anorak (Storm Hits Jacket) won the Short Jury Award for Animation at Sundance 2015. Recently screened by Picturehouse alongside the other winners, it...
Short of the Week – Grand Zero Kambole Campbell May 23, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/106241499 “It’s not a cult. It’s America.” Grand Zero, Kevin Oeser’s 15-minute trip into suburban dystopia, is a strange and dryly humorous satire of pyramid schemes,...
