Short of the Week

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    Romance Emily Carmichael

    RPG OKC

    Two 8-bit video game characters enter the world of online dating and forge an unlikely romance.

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    SotW + PBS Show: Kinetic Editing — The Films of Max Joseph

    We totally adore this edition of our YouTube show! It's our shortest playlist yet, but perhaps the most intriguing. Our indomitable host, Ivan Kander, puts his critic hat firmly on to praise the innovative editing work of rising short form star Max Joseph.

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    Experimental Hannes Vartiainen & Pekka Veikkolainen

    Erään hyönteisen tuho (The Death of an Insect)

    In a lifeless urban landscape where time itself has stopped its crawl, a mad ballet is commencing and a newly hatched butterfly is about to die. A celebrated mixed-media experimental film combining stop-motion, 3D modeling and CT scans.

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    Dark Comedy Matt Spicer

    It's Not You, It's Me

    Starring Gillian Jacobs (Community), a young woman's relationship takes a dark turn when every sound her boyfriend makes starts to annoy her.

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    Drama Ian Harnarine

    Doubles With Slight Pepper

    In rural Trinidad, Dhani struggles to support himself and his mother by selling doubles (Trinidad’s quintessential street food). When his estranged father returns from Canada unexpectedly, Dhani must decide if he will help save his father’s life despite their strained relationship.

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    Documentary Matthew Bate

    The Mystery of Flying Kicks

    Murder, sex, drugs, art & politics... A film exploring the mystery of why sneakers appear on telephone lines around the world.

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    Drama Jonathan Ng

    Requiem For Romance

    In this "crouching love, hidden breakup" story, inspired by 50's Shanghai water ink animation & kung fu films, themes of distance, tradition, art and longing dominate a telephonic conversation.

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    Sci‑Fi Adam Marisett

    AMP

    When an old childhood friend tracks him down, Quinn is confronted with the dilemma of choosing to remain idle in a city run by the corrupt Coreley Corporation or finally finish the war he never wanted to be a part of. A viral prelude to a planned TV series

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    SotW + PBS Show: Fan Films

    One of the most popular genres of short film online capitalizes on the popularity of existing properties—we're talking fan films! And like fanfic, fan films can be really, really cool. We haven't had a Fifty Shades of Gray moment for fan films yet, but looking at this playlist our own Ivan Kander has compiled for you, it's only a matter of time.

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