Short Film Tag Archive

Live Action, Premiere

Taylor Thompson Shows Us Exactly How to Not Make Friends in His Bungling Comedy Short ‘People Person’

Taylor Thompson explains how he channelled his failures with adult friending into his cringe-inducing short about a lonely chatterbox desperate to connect.

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Live Action

Thousands of Women’s Experiences Coalesce Into One Exquisitely Painful Day in Bren Cukier’s ‘Thursday’

Bren Cukier shares how the intimate accounts of real women directly informed her film about a woman's isolating experience practising her reproductive rights.

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Live Action

The Gaping Chasm Left by a Missing Girl Is Quickly Inhabited by a Lonely Opportunist in Jimmy Goldblum’s ‘Jude’

Jimmy Goldblum discusses up-ending typical true crime missing girl tropes in his short following a teen girl who inserts herself into a life that isn’t hers.

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Art & Fashion

Adi Halfin Finds Grace Amongst the Sweat in Her Kinetic Gym Fashion Short ‘There’s Beauty in the Burn’

Director Adi Halfin talks about the challenges of creating a choreographic language that blended workout and dance for her energizing Calia fashion film.

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Live Action, Premiere

Youthful Abandon Clashes Against the Burdens of Impending Adulthood in Melina Valdez’ ‘Weapons and Their Names’

Melina Valdez unpacks her process of weaving magical realism into a grounded narrative informed by personal experience to portray the tumult of teenage grief.

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Live Action, Premiere

David Robinson-Smith Depicts the Lingering Nature of Trauma and Guilt in His Searing Drama Short ‘Mud Crab’

David Robinson-Smith discusses the considered active cinematography employed in his haunting short where an unreliable narrator recounts a violent assault.

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Art & Fashion

Shapxo’s Fashion Film ‘Chasing the Drums’ Envisions a Pan-African World Where Light Is Born From Darkness

Shapxo breaks down the surreal, visually lavish Pan-African inspired world he created for his ambitious fashion short shot on the platform of a working subway.

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Live Action, Premiere

An Accidental Murder Leads to Escalating Chaos in James Button & Kristaps Kazaks’ ‘The Corpse Series’

Co-Directors James Button & Kristaps Kazaks talk us through the evolution from short to web series to featurette of their blood-soaked slasher comedy.

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Documentary

Gianna Mazzeo Chronicles an Unsung Symbol of Lesbian Community in Kinetic Doc ‘The History of the Carabiner’

Gianna Mazzeo details the importance of queer oral history when creating her film about a uniting and proud symbol of lesbian self-expression and community.

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Live Action, Premiere

Aleksandra Kingo Pays Homage to the Fine Art of Avoidance in Comedy Short ‘An Ode to Procrastination’

Photographer/Director Aleksandra Kingo explains the ideas first, technology second creative approach she took for her life imitating art debut short film.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Friendship Is Irrevocably Changed After the Confession of a Dark Desire in Sebastian Delascasas’ ‘Promise’

Sebastian Delascasas speaks about dropping his audience directly into the thorny heart of the deeply unsettling conversation of his friendship testing drama.

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Live Action

A Jaded Jester Discovers a Sinister Plot Against Him in Gareth Bowen’s Darkly Comic ‘The Licensed Fool’

Gareth Bowen distils the infusion of gritty, zoom-lensed camerawork and medieval tomfoolery which underpins his paranoid medieval-set dark comedy.

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