Short of the Week – Benigni Rachel Brook July 20, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl8M6QGnVEo Benigni is a beguiling and paradoxical fantasy of the mundane which, despite early foreshadowing, contains plenty of shock value. Skilful animation endows...
Short of the Week – Balance Dave McLaughlin July 13, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CTesYaduBA&safe=active For those of us who grew up with the amusing antics of Wallace and Gromit, Balance can feel like the eerie, ghost-like shadow that haunts the dark...
Short of the Week – Sahar Bethany White July 6, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/alexanderfarah/sahar What happened to Sahar? Alexander Farah’s short lets the answer hang in gloomy ambiguity. Seething with family tensions, gender politics and the clash of...
Short Of The Week – Bringing Back the Light Danielle Davenport June 29, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/131506757 With subtlety, simplicity and restraint, Bringing Back the Light eschews patent ‘nature porn’ in favour of gentle storytelling. This didactic...
Short Of The Week – Denali Bertie Archer June 22, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/122375452 However you reacted to Marley & Me, prepare to be hit by a crashing wave of emotion. Denali is a tribute, a love letter, a farewell between two best friends; they have...
Short of the Week – Skwerl Rachel Brook June 15, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY After familiar establishing shots, unintelligible dialogue plunges viewers into disorientation. If cinema is about innovative communication of narrative...
Short of the Week – One Year Lease Bethany White June 8, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/111681045 "Chat lunatique": this fridge-magnet epithet encapsulates the irksome antagonist of this amusing short. Told almost exclusively through voicemails, One Year Lease tracks...
Short of the Week – Fashionable Animal Madeline Joint June 1, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week It’s gorgeous; its gently flickering lights, exotic creatures and muted pinks, blues and greens move with the playful soundtrack. As a glorified advert it’s a wonderful little film: experimental,...
Short of the Week – Lovers Lookout David Brake May 25, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/106521626 Lovers Lookout is not surprising, nor suspenseful and far from thrilling. This short is a simple and obvious tale. Deftly handled, it looks at the torture one can inflict...
Short of the Week – The Gift Patrick Taylor May 18, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://youtu.be/5eIMafROjyo Before Carl Rinsch embarked on the disastrous 47 Ronin, he brought us a short, sumptuous and intriguing vision of a futuristic Moscow. Notable for its eerie opening...
Short of the Week – An Object At Rest David Brake May 11, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/126177413 Riffing on Newton's first law of motion, An Object At Rest is a charmer. Rather than following the trope of a static figure desperate for freedom, this short heads the...
Short of the Week – The Black Hole Rachel Brook May 4, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/15759511 The anonymous office setting of The Black Hole, along with the all-to-recognisable experiences of tedium and frustration, anticipates the equally surreal world of Richard...
Short Of The Week – The Alchemist’s Letter Bertie Archer April 27, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/125527643 The Alchemist’s Letter is a beautiful, inventive animation, filled with detail. Ever evolving into new scenes, each adding another layer of artistry, this is the...
Short of the Week – Second Thoughts David Brake April 20, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/125153680 High Priest Nebula (Scovel) is re-considering the idea of transcending to meet up with Lord Ophelion. Fair enough. Problem is he's the cult leader who claimed Ophelion...
Short of the Week – Paperman Ellen Dwyer April 13, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QAI4B_2Mfc Paperman has an old-fashioned simplicity about it; it makes no attempts to be clever or flash, but instead produces a charming, beautifully animated and funny...
