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 – Whale Heart Henry Gatrell February 27, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/203116933 Written and directed by Robert Allen and animated by a team of third-year students at The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Whale Heart tells the story of a father and son,...
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 – SCION James Andrews February 13, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/116816457 A hitman thriller with a sci-fi edge, SCION is a precise and slickly produced piece that feels almost like an extended trailer for a longer film. Like a lot of good science...
Short of the Week – Crack Phil W. Bayles February 6, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/111952478 From the biting political satire of Borat to the biting comedy horror of What We Do in the Shadows, the mockumentary format has endured over the years because of its...
Short of the Week – Project X Kambole Campbell January 30, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/193562415 With the recent onslaught of worrying executive actions from the new Trump administration (coupled with awful implications concerning freedom of press), it could be easy to...
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 – Last Letters David Brake January 9, 2017 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/195284427 As a father exhales deeply, mournfully, halfway through Last Letters, he holds himself together enough to reflect on 14 months of suffering. Having moved to create a change...
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 – 160 Characters David Brake November 28, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/189536800 "A picture says a thousand words." So goes the age-old saying. Yet what can a limit of 160 characters achieve? Victoria Mapplebeck's minimalist, taut and frankly...
Short of the Week – M.A.M.O.N. (Latinos vs Donald Trump) Kambole Campbell November 21, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q__bSi5rBlw For a lot of people, it’s been a frustrating couple of weeks. With the result of the US election, there’s plenty of concern for how the next four years...
Short of the Week – Smoke That Travels Lina Jurdeczka November 14, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/189570347 What makes us want to tell the stories of our lives? Perhaps it’s the fear of being forgotten after we die. Maybe it’s about taking ownership of them, to avoid somebody...
Short of the Week – Very Lonely Cock Phil W. Bayles November 7, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week Don't let the provocative title fool you - Russian animator Leonid Shmelkov's Very Lonely Cock is a charming animated short which, while utterly bizarre, is also completely safe for work. We think....
Short of the Week – The Horribly Slow Murder With The Extremely Inefficient Weapon Phil W. Bayles October 31, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDvgL58h_Y A truly great parody is the one that doesn't require the audience to be familiar with any particular thing that it's mocking. It's why Airplane! remains one...
Short of the Week – Borrowed Time David Brake October 24, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/187257744 Perhaps there should be no real surprise in a Pixar animator’s penchant for twanging heartstrings with a perfectly placed pixel or two. Toys holding hands in a last...
