Short Film Tag Archive

Article, Film Festival, Sponsored

Mattia Fiumani on Championing Sustainability in the World of Advertising With New Festival Conero Film + Adv

Mattia Fiumani unpacks the sustainability-driven ethos behind both the programming and infrastructure of the inaugural Conero Film + Adv.

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Live Action

Michael Rees’ Comedy ‘Middle Sized Things’ Sees a Lecturer’s Nonsensical Theory Demolished by His Students

Michael Rees takes DN through his brisk and effective approach to production for his short about a lecturer being challenged about his baffling thesis.

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Art & Fashion, Premiere

Heather Lang & Purdie Baumann Reclaim the Sacredness of Dance and Community With Experimental Short ‘Simulation’

Heather Lang tells DN how the mise-en-scene of her & Purdie Baumann's dance short was foundational in shaping the radical character of the overall piece.

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Live Action

A Couple’s Intimate Conversation Takes a Flagrantly Freaky Turn in Erin Murray’s ‘I Don’t Need to Know’

Erin Murray talks to us about exposing the cracks in a relationship through a revelatory conversation about sexual desires in her sharp-witted comedy short.

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Live Action, Premiere

An Injured Young Man Incites a Surreal Encounter in Björn Rühmann’s Psychological Thriller ‘MirrorMirror’

Björn Rühmann discusses the use of darkness and shadow to emphasise the aura of mystery in his unsettling psychological thriller.

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Art & Fashion, Premiere

Freddie Leyden’s ‘Under the Skin of a Guild: Wake of Lost Souls’ Exposes Britain’s Colonial Horrors Through Dance

Freddie Leyden's history reckoning dance film explores the horrific past of Guildhall through heavy contrasts, wide angles and loose camera movement.

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Live Action, Premiere

Jamie Fraser Surveys a Cross-Section of British Life in the Charming, Multi-Layered ‘Green Space’

Jamie Frasher shares how he was inspired by the compositions of landscape paintings for his surveillance-like observation of British oddity.

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Film Festival

Reading & Leeds 2023 Cinema Tent…When the Music Stops You Don’t Have To

Keep your adrenaline pumping with our hand picked selection of shorts screening live at the Reading & Leeds Festival Cinema Tents.

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Live Action

Giorgio Miraflor’s ‘Me + Lee’ Is a Love Letter to the Intangible Energy That Exists Between Siblings

Giorgio Miraflor talks to DN about providing his audience with an absorbing fly's eye view of a transformative conversation in his slice of life drama.

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Please Hold the Line

Film Festival

Ten Must-See Shorts Screening at the 19th Annual Hollyshorts

Split between American and international efforts, we pick out 10 fantastic shorts from LA's very own 19th Hollyshorts Film Festival.

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Live Action

An Intense Game of Street Fighter Exposes Fragile Masculinity in Yuan Hu’s Frenzied Comedy ‘Sticks of Fury’

Yuan Hu roadmaps DN through the meticulous preparation of his energetic comedy about an older gamer whose fragile masculinity is systematically destroyed.

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The Song of a Lost Boy Short Film Daniel Quirke

Animation, Awards

Daniel Quirke Explains How Wax, Religion & DIY Instruments Inspired NFTS Short ‘The Song of a Lost Boy’

NFTS grad Daniel Quirke joins us to discuss his BAFTA-nominated stop motion short about a young choir boy's crisis of faith and journey to self-acceptance.

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