The Uncertain Kingdom – Review Jack Cameron June 3, 2020 Reviews The Uncertain Kingdom is an anthology of twenty short films. The project commissioned different artists across various disciplines to each produce a short vignette of how they see the UK. Using fiction,...
From Short to Feature: Six Notable Expansions Carmen Paddock May 30, 2019 Analysis, Features, Top 10 After beginning life as a 13-minute short film, Thunder Road arrives in UK cinemas this week. The original depiction of a police officer awkwardly yet poignantly mourning his recently deceased mother through...
Short of the Week: Martin Carmen Paddock June 26, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/shortoftheweek/220985345 Norfolk seems the last place on earth where the apocalypse could start. In Sholto Crow’s comedy-drama Martin, however, a man’s quiet treasure-hunting...
Poetry in Motion: The Animation of Michaël Dudok de Wit Calum Baker May 25, 2017 CEL Mates, Features, Independent If you haven't done so before, we'd recommend watching each of these brief shorts as you go through. The shortest is 2:32 and the longest is around eight minutes. Writer-director Michaël Dudok de Wit...
Short of the Week – The Bigger Picture Carmen Paddock March 6, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/203126235 The Bigger Picture, a National Film and Television School production, reached far more than the course markers – it won the 2014 Annecy Cristal for a Graduation Film, the...
Short of the Week: Prospect Dave McLaughlin February 15, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/90049558 This is not your standard coming-of-age tale. Prospect tells the story of a young girl and her father hunting through an alien forest for a rare, valuable (and disgustingly...
Short of the Week – Second Thoughts David Brake April 20, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/125153680 High Priest Nebula (Scovel) is re-considering the idea of transcending to meet up with Lord Ophelion. Fair enough. Problem is he's the cult leader who claimed Ophelion...
Short of the Week – This Is When We Met David Brake March 30, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/116525391 From the roaring flame of a burgeoning romance to the extinguished remnants of love’s conclusion. This Is When We Met compresses the pain and elation of a relationship's...
Short of the Week – If I Die On Mars David Brake February 16, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/119124588 "If I die on Mars, it would be great". For a tale of astronomical distance, in an almost science fiction reality, If I Die on Mars has an altogether more human, warming...
