Short Film Tag Archive

Animation, Film Festival

Manchester Animation Festival 2024 Preview

Manchester Animation Festival returns for its 10th edition and we've selected 8 must-see short films from the programme that we're sure you'll love.

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Live Action

Torn Between Ambition and Life’s Competing Demands a Woman Faces Her Fragmented Personas in David Findlay’s ‘Faces’

David Findlay discusses the melding of music and sound design integral to his fast paced descent into the surreality of a woman's frantic subconscious.

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Awards, Live Action

A Female Bull-Jumper Holds Her Own in a Sacred Androcentric Arena in Joe Weiland & Finn Constantine’s ‘Marion’

Weiland & Constantine deconstruct the 6 camera coverage needed to capture the set-piece of their heart-pounding short about France’s only female bull-jumper.

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Art & Fashion, Music Video

The Intense Rhythm of an Urban Landscape Drives Or Schraiber’s Frantic Yemen Blues Music Video ‘Prayers’

Or Schraiber explains the unexpected, dynamic editing style and cinematography he employed in his distinctive Yemen Blues dance music video.

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Live Action

A Desperate Woman Visits the Site of Her Brother’s Death in Nicholas Payne Santos’ Horror Short ‘Strange Creatures’

Writer/Director Nicholas Payne Santos returns to DN and reveals why the visual effects had to be practical on his unnerving, grief-stricken horror short.

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Live Action

An Escaped Convict Encounters Two Immortal Time Travellers in Michael Anthony Kratochvil’s ‘Sweet Mary, Where Did You Go?’

Michael Anthony Kratochvil extols the rewards of rejecting appeasement and embracing the creative instinct of the peculiar for his trippy sci-fi horror short.

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Live Action, Premiere

Freddie Bonfanti Unearths Dark Truths in the Woods in His Urban Weird Horror Short ‘Treeline’

Freddie Bonfanti breaks down the intersection of masculinity and nature in crisis providing the backdrop to his unsettling, family-centred horror short.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Mother’s Contentment Is Thrown Off-Balance When Her Daughter Returns Home in Lily Weisberg’s Drama ‘Working Summer’

Lily Weisberg unpacks the gorgeous hazy visual language of her film about a daughter who's taken aback by the fullness of her mother’s independent life.

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Live Action, Premiere

Marco Pattarozzi Weaves a Devastating Tapestry of Lives Forever Changed in His Stirring Drama Short ‘Butterflies’

Marco Pattarozzi speaks about the significance of home in his dark coming-of-age drama where the last days of youthful summer are marked by tragedy and loss.

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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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Film Festival

Ten Incredible Shorts to Add to Your London Film Festival 2024 Watch List

DN filters the bounty of excellent short films on display at London Film Festival 2024 down to a list of ten recommended must-sees.

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Music Video

Dark Magic Takes Hold in Harv Frost’s Giallo-Inspired The Last Dinner Party Film ‘Prelude to Ecstasy’

Harv Frost digs into how she brought the decadent visual world of The Last Dinner Party to life in her intoxicating horror-inflected multi-video short film.

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