Short of the Week: Guns Found Here Carmen Paddock March 26, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/255517926 This weekend saw the March for Our Lives take over social media and cities around the world. While Guns Found Here does not have the visceral punch of the one ORWAV spotlighted...
Short of the Week – Terminally Happy Rory Steabler March 5, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/255663937 Newly released on Vimeo, Terminally Happy is an unsettling science-fiction short from writer-director Adina Istrate. The premise seems mundane at first: Louis (Alastair...
Short of the Week – Growth Louise Burrell February 26, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/255358936 A single-shot scene may not be the most ground-breaking of film techniques, but they are still more often than not hugely impressive. Our Short of the Week Growth is no...
Short of the Week – Describe What You Heard Tom Bond February 19, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/256122016 What is a joke? At its simplest it’s when something unexpected disrupts established logic. When the words or behaviour we come across are slightly out of kilter with the rest...
Short of the Week – Ghosted Louise Burrell February 12, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/251295114 Following on from last year's comedy-horror Prevenge, Alice Lowe once again finds herself playing a woman in the wake of her partner's death. Deliciously dark and completely...
Short of the Week – Chops Sinead McCausland January 29, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWxtmUB8uYI Director, writer, and animator Jac Clinch has created an impressive filmography that details the frustrations of small-town life in Britain. With his...
Short of the Week – To Build a Fire Henry Gatrell January 22, 2018 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/246869455 The adaptation of Jack London’s highly-regarded short story To Build a Fire effectively captures the story of a man's last frozen moments. The text and film shift from one...
Short of the Week – He Could’ve Gone Pro Louise Burrell December 18, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/245059039 He Could've Gone Pro may be set at Christmastime, but don’t go in expecting a big dose of festive cheer. This is a sad, touching, and thought-provoking short film that...
Short of the Week – Happiness Carmen Paddock December 4, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/244405542#at=2 Hot on the heels of Black Friday, a film which takes a direct stab at the consumer ‘holiday’ and the culture which it personifies might be a bit on the nose, but...
Short of the Week – Fish Louise Burrell November 6, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/240040166 Sitting somewhere between a fictional drama and a documentary, Fish tells the story of a mother-of-three struggling to retain a relationship with the...
Short of the Week – SALA: A Short Odyssey Henry Gatrell October 16, 2017 Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/231635275 The latter years of teen life are all challenge, identity crisis, uncertainty; frustration and dissatisfaction plague almost everyone. But for others it’s harder –...
Short of the Week – 3000 Miles Phil W. Bayles October 9, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/235664764 Leaving home in the 21st century is a strange paradox. Even when we are alone, our access to technology means we are forever tied to our loved ones. Even when we are apart,...
Short of the Week – Trespass Louise Burrell September 18, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/231710597 There have been plenty of films over the years that prove, time and again, that nothing good ever comes from a walk in the woods (at least not in the film...
Short of the Week – The Heist Carmen Paddock September 11, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/230559377 Summer 2017 has seen two excellent heist films – Baby Driver and Logan Lucky – in cinemas, so it seems appropriate to celebrate a four-minute spoof of the genre. The...
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...
