Short Film Tag Archive

Live Action

BLOK Take Aim at the Warped Ideals of Honour in Darkly Comic Satirical Short ‘A Dishonourable Death’

BLOK chew over the technical decisions that manifested the heightened tone of their period short about bruised male pride escalating to fatal consequences.

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Animation, Live Action

Jeff Ledellaytner & Ariel Costa Present a Lo-Fi Psychedelic Visual Feast With Super Bobby Music Video ‘Dirty City’

Jeff Ledellaytner reveals how he and Co-Director Ariel Costa embraced each other's creativity for their constantly-evolving surreal music video.

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Live Action

Olivia J. Middleton Weaves a Classical Tale of Fleeting Romance in Her Roadside Cafe-Set Drama ‘A90′

Olivia J. Middleton explains how the roadside cafe setting of her romantic drama became the ideal locale for her tale of fleeting connection.

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Live Action, Premiere

Dustin Waldman’s ‘Never Fuggedaboutit’ Sees The Sopranos Become a Heated Battleground for American Patriotism

Dustin Waldman speaks about vividly evoking the paranoia of the post 9/11 era in showing a post-production house removing the Twin Towers from The Sopranos.

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Animation

A Day in the Life of a Child Becomes a Psychedelic Voyage in Gerhard Funk’s Trippy ‘A Goat’s Spell’

Gerhard Funk tells DN how shifting production into Virtual Reality gave him the creative boost needed to finish off his hallucinatory animation.

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Live Action, Premiere

Hannah Renton Considers the Lasting Impact of Flawed Models of Love in Decade Spanning Triptych ‘Love Is Free’

Hannah Renton breaks down the challenge of building cohesion between the individual yet joined parts of her triptych film depicting the complexities of love.

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Hymn To Infamy

Live Action, Premiere

The Violence of the Milanese Underworld Hits Hard in Vivarinis Film ‘Mascagni’ Symphony | Inno all’Infamia’

Alessandro & Flavio Vivarini discuss creating a haunting ode to Italian gangsters with heavy contrasts, religious images and floating widescreen frames.

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Animation

Lina Kalcheva Draws From Greek Mythology for Her Romantic Entanglement Stop Motion Short ‘Other Half’

Lina Kalcheva unpacks the philosophical grounding of her NFTS stop motion grad short which presents a world where couples become physically entangled.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Young Woman’s Longing for Intimate Fellowship Reverberates Through Julia Ponce Díaz’s Evocative Debut ‘Soredia’

Julia Ponce Díaz shares how personal & observed experiences inspired her fish-out-of-water drama about a self-conscious girl's desperate need for belonging.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Tricky Patient Causes a Therapist to Face His Own Issues in Ron Eyal’s Drama Short ‘The Therapist’

Ron Eyal takes DN through how he and his crew approached production to prioritise the actor's process for his tender interior drama.

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Documentary

NONO & Rodrgio Inada’s Epic ‘Naija Odyssey’ for Whatsapp Reconciles the Fundamentals of Identity and Belonging

NONO & Rodrgio Inada layout the methodical juggling needed to pull off the ambitious multi-country production of their Giannis Antetokounmpo profile film.

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Dead End

Live Action, Premiere

Masculinity Is a Toxic, Menacing Curse in Dima Barch’s Gripping Queer Russian Horror Short ‘Dead End’

Dima Barch walks us through his use of long takes, dynamic lighting set-ups and an ambiguous mode to create an ambitious and menacing queer horror film.

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