Short of the Week – It Is My Fault
https://vimeo.com/243940584 Beijing based animator Liu Sha conjures up a fantastic netherworld of digital spew with It Is My Fault. Just like Happiness last week, this is a four minute, dialogue-free...
Short of the Week – Happiness
https://vimeo.com/244405542#at=2 Hot on the heels of Black Friday, a film which takes a direct stab at the consumer ‘holiday’ and the culture which it personifies might be a bit on the nose, but...
Short of the Week – Submarine
https://vimeo.com/233685439 A community drifting apart can feel like the end of the world. This is usually an illusion in the mind. In Mounia Akl’s award-winning short, the decomposition of the...
Short of the Week – How To Lose Weight in Four Easy Steps
https://vimeo.com/149123295 Winkingly cribbing its title from those thinly veiled click-bait ads you normally make fun of, How To Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps is a pretty standard tale. Only, it's done...
Short of the Week – Learn: 1st World Problems
https://vimeo.com/238954750 Learn:1st World Problems is a satire exploring the narcissistic world of the creative industries, in this case fashion, uncovering not only the duplicitous traits needed to...
Short of the Week – Fish
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/240040166 Sitting somewhere between a fictional drama and a documentary, Fish tells the story of a mother-of-three struggling to retain a relationship with the...
Short of the Week – Fox and the Whale
https://vimeo.com/237551523 Nowadays, pretty visuals, compensating for a lack of substance, can go a long way for some shorts. One suspects there's a hope that the short running time and a few...
Short of the Week – SALA: A Short Odyssey
https://vimeo.com/231635275 The latter years of teen life are all challenge, identity crisis, uncertainty; frustration and dissatisfaction plague almost everyone. But for others it’s harder –...
Short of the Week – 3000 Miles
https://vimeo.com/235664764 Leaving home in the 21st century is a strange paradox. Even when we are alone, our access to technology means we are forever tied to our loved ones. Even when we are apart,...
Short of the Week: Blade Runner: Black Out 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrZk9sSgRyQ It's easy to be skeptical about the implications that an expanded Blade Runner universe has - the franchising of a film that basically screamed about the dangers...
Short of the Week – Quand J’ai Remplacé Camille
https://vimeo.com/224657759 At One Room With A View, nothing excites us more than new talent. The thrilling prospect of discovering fresh, stimulating voices as they enter the world of film for the...
Short of the Week – Trespass
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/231710597 There have been plenty of films over the years that prove, time and again, that nothing good ever comes from a walk in the woods (at least not in the film...
Short of the Week – The Heist
https://vimeo.com/230559377 Summer 2017 has seen two excellent heist films – Baby Driver and Logan Lucky – in cinemas, so it seems appropriate to celebrate a four-minute spoof of the genre. The...
Short of the Week – The Last Time
We’ve all been there: standing around, minding your own business, something completely innocuous happens nearby and you’re thrown down the mental rabbit-hole. In Christine Hooper’s colourful...
Short of the Week – Compatibility
https://vimeo.com/231105192 Brooker’s Law states that any time an artist makes a statement about technology’s impact on our lives, someone will inevitably make a comparison to Black Mirror. It’s a...