Short of the Week – The Last Time Calum Baker September 4, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 Phil W. Bayles August 28, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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...
Short of the Week – MANOMAN Sinead McCausland August 21, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/173524321 MANOMAN is a short film that viewers should watch more than once in order to grasp its smart, cinematic spectacle. Due to the film's surrealist humour, the viewer can easily...
Short of the Week – Hard Coffee Louise Burrell August 14, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/227495263 Shot on one cartridge of 8mm film, with only in-camera edits allowed and no post-production, Hard Coffee is three and a half minutes of highly-caffeinated energy. Filmed as part...
Short of the Week – In A Heartbeat James Andrews August 7, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2REkk9SCRn0 Among the three-hour, exposition-heavy blockbusters it can be easy to forget how much can be done with just a few minutes and no dialogue at all. In a...
Short of the Week – Firebase Phil W. Bayles July 31, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm0V24IEHao Earlier this year, Neill Blomkamp – the man behind the brilliant District 9 and the criminally underrated Chappie – founded Oats Studios: an independent...
Short of the Week – The Typist Tori Brazier July 24, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/222274236 The Typist mixes dramatisations of Otto Bremerman’s 1994 historical society interview and his 1950s interviewing of gay sailors with stock footage to great effect,...
Short of the Week – Balloonfest Louise Burrell July 17, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/223715406 In a documentary that could just as easily be a Christopher Guest film, director Nathan Truesdell pulls together archive footage of a frankly bizarre event that occurred in...
Short of the Week – War & Cheese David Brake July 10, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/170083208 On August 7 2014, Oleg Sirota heard how his beloved Russia was banning the import of all Western cheeses; a retaliation to the sanctions forced upon them for their invasion...
Short of the Week: It’s All Right, It’s OK Louise Burrell July 3, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/231158508 Winner of Sundance 2016’s Special Jury Award, director Jim Cummings is back with a trio of short films created for First Look Media. Each of the shorts are shot in just one...
Short of the Week: Martin Carmen Paddock June 26, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/shortoftheweek/220985345 Norfolk seems the last place on earth where the apocalypse could start. In Sholto Crow’s comedy-drama Martin, however, a man’s quiet treasure-hunting...
Short of the Week – Much Better Now Naomi Soanes June 19, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCq6tbwHN0U Never will you have watched a short film before that says so much without saying anything at all. Following the adventures of a lonely bookmark, who is...
Short of the Week – Mariner Louise Burrell June 12, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/219933301 Based on writer, director and producer Thyrone Tommy's own experiences, Mariner tells the mesmerising tale of Nate, a young navigation cadet taking his final college exams. A...
Short of the Week – Over Sinead McCausland June 5, 2017 Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/121667533 Cinema's main purpose is not just to tell a story, but the story of a person. When these stories and people are shrouded in mystery, they become more fascinating to...
Short of the Week – Strawberries Will Save The World Phil W. Bayles May 29, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/216918144 The world is a bloody scary place sometimes, and even our beloved Short of the Week section can’t escape that fact. Too often recently, our shorts have dealt with heavy...
