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,...
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...
