Short Film Tag Archive

Art & Fashion

Zen Pace’s Poetic Experimental Short ‘Little Mirror’ Is a Therapeutic Love Letter to the Inner Child

Zen Pace breaks down the meticulously crafted emotional architecture of their self-reflexive experimental poetry short film love letter to the inner child.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Woman Gets More Than She Bargained for When She Orders a Sophisticated Sex Toy in Hunter Allen’s ‘Roger’

Hunter Allen explains the key role lighting and suggestive motifs played in bringing together the advertising and naturalistic worlds of his sex toy comedy.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Desperate Romantic Is Prescribed a Love-Cynical Rebound in Julie Magnaudet’s Conceptual Rom-Com ‘Broken Hearts’

Julie Magnaudet breaks down the colourful, warm and subversive visual language of her conceit-driven romantic comedy about a women seeking love life help.

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Live Action, Premiere

Christa Haley Captures an Intense Moment of Female Vulnerability in Her NYU Tisch Short ‘Swim Captain’

Christa Haley details the intricacies of shooting the intimate scene in her film revealing the hidden vulnerability a swim leader looked up to by her peers.

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Live Action

Hysteria and Paranoia Take Hold in Joe Williams & Charlie Edwards-Moss’ Folk Horror Short ‘O, Glory!’

Joe Williams & Charlie Edwards-Moss discuss imbuing their 70s-influenced folk horror with a contemporary edge while shooting on 35mm to evoke the time period.

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Awards, Documentary

Miranda Stern’s Cathartic NFTS Documentary ‘milk’ Is an Intimate Exploration of Maternity, Addiction and Loss

Miranda Stern unpacks the cathartic and narrative reasons she opted for an abstract, mixed media scrapbook-style approach for her self-explorative doc short.

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Live Action, Premiere

Audrey Mascina’s ‘Ludo’ Pointedly Subverts Our Expectations of Two Women Stumbling Down a Deserted Road at Night

Audrey Mascina talks about the importance of audiences seeing representations of powerful women on screen like those in her late night deserted road set drama.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Teen Girl’s Boundaries Are Irrevocably Crossed in Jaja Meloche’s Coming of Age Drama ‘Grown’

Jaja Meloche explains why she wanted a bold female character to lead the narrative in her powerful coming of age drama exploring the grey area of consent.

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Art & Fashion

A Loyal Steed Eternally Awaits the Impossible Return of Its Knight in Enea Colombi’s Fashion Film ‘Demon’

Enea Colombi delves into the process of generating the striking shot compositions that populate his eerie, medieval branded fashion short.

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Live Action

A Couple Investigate Their Mutating Cloning Ability in Peter Collins Campbell’s Sci-Fi Short ‘Variations on a Theme’

Peter Collins Campbell unpacks the wizardry behind the split-screen visuals of his short about a couple who can duplicate into new versions of themselves.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Meet Cute Rapidly Descends Into a Quagmire of Modern Day Relationship Hell in William Kenton’s ‘Outdoor Seating’

William Kenton reveals the lived experiences and modern dating tropes steeped in his quirky, anti-rom-com about the life cycle of a New York relationship.

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Documentary

Hervé Demers Tackles Themes of Deindustrialisation and Community in Documentary Short ‘Once the Dust Has Settled’

Hervé Demers returns to DN to discuss his new doc short set in Asbestos, a former mining town in Quebec, which explores notions of community and identity.

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