Short of the Week – The Goblin Baby Phil W. Bayles May 16, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/user21763231/thegoblinbaby From Ellen Ripley protecting Newt in Aliens to the relationship between an exasperated mother and her tearaway son in The Babadook, the maternal bond is...
Short of the Week – The Moment Rachel Brook May 9, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/164839532 Karis Oh’s The Moment is a simple anecdote told in an enthralling monologue which ties the short together and engages from the first pitch-black frame....
Short of the Week – Mosquito Tom Bond May 2, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/139853607 This twisted comedy short uses a sci-fi premise to build a strange and hilarious tale of infidelity. An innocent encounter between two strangers – writer Michael Spicer and...
Short of the Week – Floppy D David Brake April 25, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/133163037 Composure. It's an element often absent from short films. Flair and innovation usually abound in shorts but when the razzle dazzle dims, the cracks are all too revealing....
Short of the Week – Pop Music Cathy Brennan April 18, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/155458853 Top 40 pop music is often sneered at for being a creative dead zone - and not unfairly, either. In Pop Music, however, director Patrick Muhlberger uses the likes of Taylor...
Short of the Week – Specimen Cameron Ward April 11, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/158897042 Australian filmmaker Luc Mollinger is currently studying at the London Film School. His first entry to the festival circuit made the official selection at BFI Flare LGBT London...
Short of the Week – H Positive Phil W. Bayles April 4, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/154188234 Everybody would like to die on their own terms, whether it’s peacefully in their sleep or in a state of oxygen-starved euphoria on a specially-built rollercoaster. But is there...
Short of the Week – This Idea Of Us Joni Blyth March 28, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/156713133 Can you escape your memories? Breathtaking cinematography is almost a requirement of a modern music video, but This Idea of Us goes above and beyond to anchor the...
CEL Mates: Anomalisa Conor Morgan March 22, 2016 CEL Mates, Features, Independent Anomalisa is one of the the scariest films you'll ever see. It is also one of the most human films you’ll ever see. It is 100% concentrated existential dread with a layer of unsettling psychological disorder...
Short of the Week – The Man From Death David Brake March 21, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/156553337 Welcome to the wildly beautiful Wild West. There's no time for reflection or composure as Stephen Reedy goes hell for leather in his punky, Scott...
Short of the Week – IDLE Rachel Brook March 14, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/127949242 This confident and atmospheric short may not be flashy, but its ambling, observational pace and detailed soundscape piques the curiosity. With charmingly stylised visuals...
Short of the Week – Darth Maul: Apprentice Tom Bond March 7, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djo_91jN3Pk Star Wars fans have long wished to see more of Darth Maul, one of the most exciting but short-lived villains in the series’ history. Darth Maul: Apprentice...
Short of the Week – Visible Tom Bond February 29, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/153748114 Visible is an inspiring short film about the importance of being yourself, delivered with an intriguing sci-fi twist. In this future Earth, most people have inexplicably...
Short of the Week – Symphony No. 42 David Brake February 22, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/153887315 A grated brain, elephants painting rescue signs and opera-singing penguins are just a few of the vignettes of gold within Symphony No. 42. Flowing through dreams, and...
Short of the Week: Prospect Dave McLaughlin February 15, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/90049558 This is not your standard coming-of-age tale. Prospect tells the story of a young girl and her father hunting through an alien forest for a rare, valuable (and disgustingly...
