Short of the Week – Sweet Maddie Stone Sinead McCausland March 20, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 James Andrews March 13, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 Phil W. Bayles February 20, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 Phil W. Bayles January 23, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 Phil W. Bayles December 5, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 David Brake October 10, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 Danielle Davenport October 3, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 Stephanie Watts August 29, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 Henry Gatrell August 8, 2016 Independent, Short of the Week 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 Patrick Nabarro July 25, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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 Henry Gatrell July 11, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week 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...
Short of the Week – The Arrival Dave McLaughlin June 13, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/166075559 The Arrival tells the story of a woman coming to a life-changing decision. We first encounter Anna arriving in a small café, viewed through the smudged glass of the...
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 – 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: 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...
