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...
Short of the Week: Two Cars, One Night Dave McLaughlin February 8, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week Ideal for post-Waitangi Day recovery, Two Cars, One Night is an Oscar-nominated short about childhood, love and connection from Taika Waititi, director of Boy. It tells of the growing love between a young boy...
Short of the Week – Pre Vis Action Cathy Brennan February 1, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://youtu.be/ZdrwseAC9Jw Gareth Evans is now one of the leading names in action cinema. The genre-defining intensity and brutality within The Raid I & II changed the game. With this latest...
Short of the Week – The Diary of Ochibi Cathy Brennan January 25, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/125447393 The Diary of Ochibi is a charming piece of entertainment whose stylistic tendencies harken back to the pre-Disney days of animation. With no sound, save for the chirpy music,...
Short of the Week – Actresses Olivia Luder January 19, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/147391888 You should love yourself before loving another - and yet actress Sarah (Taylor Hess) seems to have missed the memo. Shot at night - the kind of time when you begin to get...
Short of the Week – Russian Roulette Nick Evan-Cook January 11, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/90733535 Password: russian At ORWAV we’re no strangers to the bizarre but brilliant works of rising short film director Ben Aston, and Sundance London winner Russian Roulette –...
Short of the Week – Mind the Gap Cathy Brennan January 4, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/103459634 While Mind the Gap may have a bit of a bare-bones narrative, with little dialogue besides the titular recording, this short by Luke Flanagan succeeds in its modest...
Short of the Week – The Technician David Brake December 21, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/119240048 Graduation films pour out in their droves, varying from pure dreck to the astounding. Luckily our latest Short of the Week lands towards the positive end of this...
Short of the Week – We’ll Find Something Eddie Falvey December 14, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week We'll Find Something (2015) from casey gooden on Vimeo. Casey Gooden's We'll Find Something tells the story of a young, outwardly hip couple on a search for food in New York City. The couple...
Short of the Week: Two and Two Nick Evan-Cook December 7, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHOOV83j7bo Babak Anvari's Persian 2011 BAFTA-nominated short Two and Two uses a classroom setting and its credulous inhabitants to highlight the absurdity and...
