Short of the Week – Good Crazy
https://vimeo.com/216850224 What does it mean to be crazy? And what does it cost to be good? Writer/director/star Rosa Salazar's charming comedy takes a sideways look at those questions, as well as...
Short of the Week – Face Lift
https://vimeo.com/214617676 In 2017 body image issues among young adults are a very real problem, with unrealistic beauty standards for women and men plastered across billboards and the media in...
Short of the Week – Futur Sauvage
https://vimeo.com/189522268 Dystopias are a hot property right now; thankfully the genre deals in possibility (albeit the terrifying ones) and thus is hard to exhaust. In Futur Sauvage, the future is...
Short of the Week – A Mighty Nice Man
https://vimeo.com/209597030 Based on Patricia Highsmith’s book of the same name, HBO-backed A Mighty Nice Man tells the eerie story of a little girl’s loss of innocence. When Charlotte and her...
Short of the Week – Sweet Maddie Stone
https://vimeo.com/154873241 Brady Hood’s realist NFTS short film, Sweet Maddie Stone, proves the electrifying force of the realist genre. The story is simple, but its protagonist is not; Jessica...
Short of the Week – Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhrWuMzK7Mo An average British family are getting ready for a trip. Mum and Dad are rounding up their two young children, checking their route online and loading a...
Short of the Week – Cracked Screen: A Snapchat Story
https://vimeo.com/202796971 Social media and cinema have never been the cosiest of bedfellows. Most films that have directly tackled the ubiquity of things like Facebook and Twitter tend to go down the...
Short of the Week – HERO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQZe6y8eaDA Superheroes, like the gods and myths of old that predate them, are steeped in formula and archetypes. Dom Fera understands this, because Adam, the protagonist...
Short of the Week – The Fly
https://vimeo.com/139863591 Way back in 2003 director Edgar Wright shot the music video for Mint Royale's 'Blue Song', which starred Noel Fielding as a getaway driver waiting for three bank robbers...
Short of the Week – Thunder Road
https://vimeo.com/174957219 If you're going to do a short film based around the title of one of Bruce Springsteen’s best and most popular songs, you’d better do a good job. Luckily for Jim Cummings,...
Short of the Week – Bär
https://vimeo.com/174254407 Innovation in short films does not necessarily need to be characterised by alternative camera angles, outlandish CGI effects or narrative twists. Little things...
Short of the Week – Talking Cure
https://vimeo.com/167111872 Talking Cure is a short film that uses animated sketches to illustrate improvised dialogue from comedy improv group Starla and Sons. In a four-minute mishmash of quick-fire...
Short of the Week – My Sister’s Dollhouse
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/177375994 My Sister's Dollhouse is described in its tagline as "a parody of sorts." This perfectly captures the film's dry humour and lack of unneeded flash; there is...
Short of the Week – Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded: Abbas Kiarostami
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19LQx_wbGTw One of the world’s great filmmakers, Abbas Kiarostami, died earlier this month. Among several superb directors in the Iranian new wave, Kiarostami shone...
Short of the Week – Edmond
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/172911816 Edmond won the BAFTA Short Animation Award in 2016, which is both surprising and completely not. The film is at once brilliant and incredibly obscure. That...