Tagged short film

With prison reform and abolition hot - and necessary - topics today, Antony Spina’s short film imagines a coldly efficient worst case scenario. As the United States prison system reaches capacity, an...

Misery loves company, and this adage holds true in art. While sometimes there is catharsis to be found in a good tragedy, sometimes exploring the ways something or someone can go terribly, irrevocably wrong -...

This film was previously reviewed in June 2020 as part of our Sheffield Doc/Fest coverage. In 2018, one year before she passed away, the influential feminist filmmaker Barbara Hammer revisited a project she...

“Who would not wish to live a hundred years in a world where there are so many people who remember with gratitude and affection a little man with a frozen face who made them laugh a bit long years ago when...

What’s scarier than a satanic cult? A men’s rights group. Mariel Sharp and Kaye Adelaide, directors and producers, present Don’t Text Back, a horror short made by a group of women and LGBTQ+ artists....

Everyday Greyness is the story of Magda, a young Polish woman in recovery from drug addiction. Magda has been living at a treatment centre where, along with a small group of others, she has given up her life...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06uqeJzpadA Piccole Avventure Romane translates through Google to "Little Roman Adventures". And 'little' is exactly what this film is: there is very little dialogue,...

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/304823620 Within the arena of the short film some filmmakers – perhaps free from large budgets and plot conventions – find the comfort to be more expressive and...

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x569sd9 Dr Seuss’ beloved Christmas tale may not be as essential to UK holiday programming as The Snowman, but its two versions this millennium – the second, starring...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD3-XG2Z4Pg Talented siblings Jeff Nichols (director of Mud, Midnight Special, and Loving) and Ben Nichols (lead guitarist for the ‘country-punk rock’ band Lucero)...

https://vimeo.com/270611565 A blend of stop-motion puppets and live action, Theo and Celeste sees two friends asking increasingly absurd questions that then become a reality for them. Always beginning with...

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/154583964 If you were invited to jump from a 10 meter high diving board, would you go for it, or would you chicken out? This is what documentary filmmakers Axel...

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/270244268 New York is one of the planet’s most recognisable places – largely thanks to the infinite films, television shows, and plays set across its five...

https://vimeo.com/257555221 Martha Gregory’s short documentary Three Red Sweaters came to fruition when she asked herself the question: how are our memories changing now that we have the ability to...

Ryan Francis Johnson's short film Writer's Workshop takes an ingenious comedic premise and cranks it up to the point of absurdity. Aspiring writer Jeremy (Grayson Low) tentatively shares a piece in a...