Short Film Tag Archive

Live Action

A Hero Fights the Pull of the Storyteller’s Tale in George Messa’s ‘Inanimate’

We all know how the story is told: a hideous beast kidnaps a beloved wife, her heartbroken husband leaves all other concerns behind to head into the deep dark

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Animation, Asides, Music Video

Max Cooper: Fragments of Self

3D Organic structures give abrupt way to manic angular shapes in Animator/Graphic Designer Nick Cobby’s music video for Max Cooper’s new track

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Asides, Documentary

Sonidos Del Distrito

Commissioned by Random Acts, Nanda Fernandez Brédillard set out on a day long journey into the streets of Mexico City to capture an visual and auditory

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Animation, Asides

Thoka Maer’s Beautifully Minimalistic Animations

German filmmaker Thoka Maer creates short films which are minimalistic in every beautiful sense of the word, just try not to blink or you might miss something.

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Asides, Live Action

A Burden of Expectation

Visuals and voice over contrast elegantly in Michael Sugrue’s brief character study A Burden of Expectation.

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Asides, Documentary

Ai Pioppi

Fabrica document the lifelong passion of Bruno, a man who for the last 40 years has built swings, slides, seesaws, gyroscopes and roller-coasters as a means to

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Asides, Live Action

For My Mother & Columbiner Holmie

Not only do I have two new films from DN’s favourite agent provocateur Douglas Burgdorff, both of which are surprisingly ‘kinda’ safe for

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Animation, Asides, Live Action

The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting Animated Bumpers

Doug Bayne puts classical paintings to comically irreverent use in this collection of animated bumpers created for Australian sketch show The Elegant

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Live Action

Spike Morris & Oscar Hudson Strip Away the Trappings of Cruel Tradition in ‘The Hunt’

Throughout human history perpetrators of abhorrent practices have often been able to sheath themselves in a justification cloak of ‘tradition’

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Animation, Asides

Happy Meal Horror (with a side of chainsaw)

The last time we found ourselves in the company of one of Rocky Curby’s films, we discovered that in his alternate universe, robots could rise from the

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Animation, Asides

The Paranormal & Technology meet in Gian Mario Ortu’s ‘A M • N’

If the all powerful mega-corps who control the structural pillars of society turned their attention to the paranormal and its workings then the subsequent

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Animation, Asides

Job, Joris & Marieke Find Their Voice in Animation ‘Mute’

In a world populated by people born without a mouth, the inhabitants go to extreme measures to find their voice. Created by animation/illustration studio Job,

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