Short of the Week – Tempête sur Anorak Rachel Brook May 30, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/89013451 Paul Cabon’s Tempête sur Anorak (Storm Hits Jacket) won the Short Jury Award for Animation at Sundance 2015. Recently screened by Picturehouse alongside the other winners, it...
Short of the Week – Grand Zero Kambole Campbell May 23, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/106241499 “It’s not a cult. It’s America.” Grand Zero, Kevin Oeser’s 15-minute trip into suburban dystopia, is a strange and dryly humorous satire of pyramid schemes,...
Short of the Week – The Goblin Baby Phil W. Bayles May 16, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/user21763231/thegoblinbaby From Ellen Ripley protecting Newt in Aliens to the relationship between an exasperated mother and her tearaway son in The Babadook, the maternal bond is...
Short of the Week – The Moment Rachel Brook May 9, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/164839532 Karis Oh’s The Moment is a simple anecdote told in an enthralling monologue which ties the short together and engages from the first pitch-black frame....
Short of the Week – Floppy D David Brake April 25, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/133163037 Composure. It's an element often absent from short films. Flair and innovation usually abound in shorts but when the razzle dazzle dims, the cracks are all too revealing....
Short of the Week – Pop Music Cathy Brennan April 18, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/155458853 Top 40 pop music is often sneered at for being a creative dead zone - and not unfairly, either. In Pop Music, however, director Patrick Muhlberger uses the likes of Taylor...
Short of the Week – Specimen Cameron Ward April 11, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/158897042 Australian filmmaker Luc Mollinger is currently studying at the London Film School. His first entry to the festival circuit made the official selection at BFI Flare LGBT London...
Short of the Week – H Positive Phil W. Bayles April 4, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/154188234 Everybody would like to die on their own terms, whether it’s peacefully in their sleep or in a state of oxygen-starved euphoria on a specially-built rollercoaster. But is there...
Short of the Week – This Idea Of Us Joni Blyth March 28, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/156713133 Can you escape your memories? Breathtaking cinematography is almost a requirement of a modern music video, but This Idea of Us goes above and beyond to anchor the...
Short of the Week – IDLE Rachel Brook March 14, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/127949242 This confident and atmospheric short may not be flashy, but its ambling, observational pace and detailed soundscape piques the curiosity. With charmingly stylised visuals...
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: 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 – Actresses Olivia Luder January 19, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/147391888 You should love yourself before loving another - and yet actress Sarah (Taylor Hess) seems to have missed the memo. Shot at night - the kind of time when you begin to get...
Short of the Week – Russian Roulette Nick Evan-Cook January 11, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/90733535 Password: russian At ORWAV we’re no strangers to the bizarre but brilliant works of rising short film director Ben Aston, and Sundance London winner Russian Roulette –...
Short of the Week – Mind the Gap Cathy Brennan January 4, 2016 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/103459634 While Mind the Gap may have a bit of a bare-bones narrative, with little dialogue besides the titular recording, this short by Luke Flanagan succeeds in its modest...
