Short of the Week – The Technician David Brake December 21, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/119240048 Graduation films pour out in their droves, varying from pure dreck to the astounding. Luckily our latest Short of the Week lands towards the positive end of this...
Short of the Week: Two and Two Nick Evan-Cook December 7, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHOOV83j7bo Babak Anvari's Persian 2011 BAFTA-nominated short Two and Two uses a classroom setting and its credulous inhabitants to highlight the absurdity and...
Short of the Week: Shells David Brake November 30, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOSy3HLbFrU&app=desktop From a minuscule budget, this evocative and smartly done war short has been born. Powered by the energy coursing through the veins of its...
Short of the Week – 97% David Brake November 2, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/143233550 Finding love in the modern digital age? We've been here before. Eight minutes of dialogue-free drama? Well, we've seen that before too. Yet similarity does not equate to...
Short of the Week – Tombes & Manèges David Brake October 5, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/135249977 Now this is an impressive student debut. Created by a crack team of brilliant animators and storytellers, Tombes & Manèges is a likeable short. Going on the charm...
Short of the Week – Agoraphobic Stephen O'Nion September 21, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAsiyqgehL8 Mondays, right? Garfield knows what I’m talking about. A timid fella takes transport, bustled along in the crowds he seeks to avoid. Unable to escape, he...
Short of the Week – How to Age Gracefully Danielle Davenport September 14, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/137249858 "Indulge your sweet tooth. You’ll need dentures soon anyway". In How to Age Gracefully, skilful artifice and spontaneity collide to create something...
Short of the Week – ZARI David Brake September 7, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/98398778 ZARI is a film confident in its narrative. A flaw? Perhaps, yet an impressive statement of intent. Slow to borderline boring, this short never rushes. Yet to criticise...
Short of the Week – Rew Day Bethany White August 31, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/129677228 Rew Day has a striking aesthetic, but it’s the storytelling that makes this macabre short captivating. Director Svilen Dimitrov tells the story of a very unlucky chap...
Short of the Week – You Won’t Regret That Tattoo Madeline Joint August 24, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/89546048 You Won’t Regret That Tattoo is a talking-head documentary about tattooed over-50s: men and women, military lads and spiritualists, diehard troublemakers and adorable...
Short of the Week – Miguel – Crazy Enough David Brake August 17, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/136247836 Miguel. Young, naive and hopeful. A fresh faced, sunglasses-toting 22-year-old with a dream. Three albums later, he's a star. GL Askew II's beautiful photography...
Short of the Week – Tusk Danielle Davenport August 10, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/134560750 Tusk is a promising short film completed by Rory Waudby-Tolley during his first year at the Royal College of Art. The film’s central question is about outsider identity,...
Short of the Week – Dotty David Brake August 3, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/128544536 At 91, Joyce Irving is a star in her debut short. Fragile, funny and sagacious, Irving shines. Placed within an obvious narrative, the actress has...
Short of the Week – Ronald David Brake July 27, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/132688253 More men have walked on the moon than been Ronald McDonald. Ronald is the story of the 1995 to 2007 inhabitant, Joe Maggard. Director John Dower has...
Short of the Week – Benigni Rachel Brook July 20, 2015 Features, Independent, Short of the Week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl8M6QGnVEo Benigni is a beguiling and paradoxical fantasy of the mundane which, despite early foreshadowing, contains plenty of shock value. Skilful animation endows...
