Dystopia Tag Archive

Animation, Live Action, Premiere

Live-Action Grime Meets Hand-Drawn Whimsy in Cameron Macgowan’s Silent Eco-Fable of Scavengers and Sprouts ‘Seed’

Shot with friends in Kananaskis wilderness dressed in scavenged junk, Cameron Macgowan's charming wordless short grew through years of unhurried collaboration.

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Music Video

Sharif Abd el Mawla Explores Dystopic Loneliness & Primal Mating Dances in Surreal Music Video ‘In Search of Yang’

Sharif Abd el Mawla steers us through the "clunky, imperfect, but genuine" movement language used to transform actor Sam Spruell into an otherworldly antihero.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Reluctant Witch Comes to Realise Her Own Potential in Lauren Pringle’s Atmospheric Movement Film ‘Witch-Hunt’

Lauren Pringle explains how she drew from the rich history of witches and environmental uncertainty for her dance short about a lonely outcast coming of age.

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This is the Winter

Live Action, Premiere

Peter King’s Dystopian Fiction ‘This is the Winter’ Throws the North-South Divide Into Sharp Relief

Peter King discusses the immaculate production design and gripping performances which unpin his tense immersive political drama short.

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Still from Toby Auberg's short film Pile

Animation

Toberg Takes Viewers on a Lo-FI 3D Journey Through the History of Human Constructs in ‘Pile’

Toberg joins us to discuss assembling a human habitat in order of “critical” to “superfluous” in his epic continuous shot RCA short 'Pile'.

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Live Action, Premiere

Nano Clow Provides a Fresh Surrealist Take on the Post-Apocalyptic Genre in ‘The Loneliest Boy in the World’

Shot in the beautiful British Columbia countryside Nano Clow's The Loneliest Boy in the World' conveys loneliness through a mix of fascinating contrasts.

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