Short of the Week – Compatibility Phil W. Bayles August 28, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/231105192 Brooker’s Law states that any time an artist makes a statement about technology’s impact on our lives, someone will inevitably make a comparison to Black Mirror. It’s a...
Short of the Week – MANOMAN Sinead McCausland August 21, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/173524321 MANOMAN is a short film that viewers should watch more than once in order to grasp its smart, cinematic spectacle. Due to the film's surrealist humour, the viewer can easily...
Short of the Week – Hard Coffee Louise Burrell August 14, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/227495263 Shot on one cartridge of 8mm film, with only in-camera edits allowed and no post-production, Hard Coffee is three and a half minutes of highly-caffeinated energy. Filmed as part...
Short of the Week – In A Heartbeat James Andrews August 7, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2REkk9SCRn0 Among the three-hour, exposition-heavy blockbusters it can be easy to forget how much can be done with just a few minutes and no dialogue at all. In a...
Short of the Week – Firebase Phil W. Bayles July 31, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm0V24IEHao Earlier this year, Neill Blomkamp – the man behind the brilliant District 9 and the criminally underrated Chappie – founded Oats Studios: an independent...
Short of the Week – Balloonfest Louise Burrell July 17, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/223715406 In a documentary that could just as easily be a Christopher Guest film, director Nathan Truesdell pulls together archive footage of a frankly bizarre event that occurred in...
Short of the Week: It’s All Right, It’s OK Louise Burrell July 3, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/231158508 Winner of Sundance 2016’s Special Jury Award, director Jim Cummings is back with a trio of short films created for First Look Media. Each of the shorts are shot in just one...
Short of the Week – Much Better Now Naomi Soanes June 19, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCq6tbwHN0U Never will you have watched a short film before that says so much without saying anything at all. Following the adventures of a lonely bookmark, who is...
Short of the Week – Mariner Louise Burrell June 12, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/219933301 Based on writer, director and producer Thyrone Tommy's own experiences, Mariner tells the mesmerising tale of Nate, a young navigation cadet taking his final college exams. A...
Short of the Week – Over Sinead McCausland June 5, 2017 Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/121667533 Cinema's main purpose is not just to tell a story, but the story of a person. When these stories and people are shrouded in mystery, they become more fascinating to...
Short of the Week – Strawberries Will Save The World Phil W. Bayles May 29, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/216918144 The world is a bloody scary place sometimes, and even our beloved Short of the Week section can’t escape that fact. Too often recently, our shorts have dealt with heavy...
Short of the Week – Good Crazy James Andrews May 22, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 Thom Denson May 8, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 Carmen Paddock May 1, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 Louise Burrell April 3, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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...
