16mm Tag Archive

Art & Fashion

Tanu Muiño & Nikita Kuzmenko’s Dance Film ‘Moncalvo’ Explores Resilience Through Thrilling Physicality

Nikita Kuzmenko delves into the process of conjuring community and catharsis with co-director Tanu Muiño through dance in their therapeutic films.dance short.

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Live Action

A TV Star Reckons With Her True Sexual Identity in Alyssa Aldaz’s Dreamlike Short ‘Beverly Heights’

Dissecting heteronormativity and queer repression in the film industry, Alyssa Aldaz recounts how her liminal queer drama began with an evocative dream.

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Live Action, Premiere

Nat Gee Explores the Invisible Violence of Dismissed Female Pain in Her Atmospheric Psychological Thriller ‘Buried’

Nat Gee details shooting on 16mm & cutting 4 minutes from her edit to help audiences deeply connect with her maverick winemaker's psychological fragmentation.

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Film Festival, Live Action

A Communication Breakdown Reveals the Simmering Toxicity of a Relationship in Vida Skerk’s Cannes Premiering ‘Ether’

From NFTS first year film to Cannes red carpet: Vida Skerk reflects on embracing subtlety over spectacle for her history making La Cinef selected short film.

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Art & Fashion, Premiere

Riccardo Fusetti Gives the Carefree Lifestyle Fashion Film a Subversive Twist in Multiformat Short ‘Editorial’

Riccardo Fusetti walks through the construction of his lifestyle short which uses 80 AI VFX shots to subvert our expectations of a model's carefree existence.

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Live Action

Transactional Intimacy Morphs Into a Surreal Meditation on Consumption in Talia Shea Levin’s ‘Make Me a Pizza’

Marxism, melting cheese, and mayhem: Talia Shea Levin takes us inside the saucy structural logic of her deliciously absurdist pizza porno parody.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Well Intentioned Street Preacher’s Premonition of Ruin Ultimately Comes to Pass in Lucas Vilicich’s ‘Luddite’

Lucas Vilicich unravels how his short evolved from screaming frustrations at the world to engaging audiences with a comedic forewarning against technology.

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Awards, Documentary

Molly O’Brien’s ‘The Only Girl in the Orchestra’ Celebrates a Life Well Lived as a Musician at the Vanguard

Molly O'Brien takes DN inside the creation of her Netflix Oscar winning doc short about the trailblazing musician Orin O’Brien and her beloved instruments.

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Awards, Documentary

Theo Panagopoulos Questions the Role of Image Making in Archival BAFTA Doc ‘The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing’

Theo Panagopoulos considers how images can both document the truth and perpetuate trauma when capturing humanity's fraught cyclical history.

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Live Action

A Mother Learns the Horrifying Cause of Her Sudden Inability to Enjoy Sex in Jessica Barr’s Revenge Short ‘Tight’

We speak to Jessica Barr about embracing the art in social cause filmmaking for her disturbing short about a woman who has her sexual agency taken from her.

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Music Video

Damiano David Enters a New Career Chapter in NONO & Rodrigo’s Transformative Music Video ‘Silverlines’

Directing duo NONO & Rodrigo Inada peel back the wide-lensed, 90s influenced visual style of their music video for Damiano David's debut solo single.

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Live Action

Iggy London’s Dreamlike ‘Area Boy’ Finds a Young Man Questioning His Place in the World Ahead of His Baptism

Iggy London explains why 16mm was the perfect vehicle for the timeless thematics and transcendental narrative of his coming of age identity short.

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