We published part 1 of this fashion film roundup to honor the end of New York fashion week and since then London and Milan have had their turn. Now we're in the thick of Fashion Week Paris, the final of the 4 consecutive world fashion weeks, and at last here is part 2.
To all our fans in the New York area! Both Andrew and I will be out at the NYC Short Film Festival this weekend to take in some great shorts and support our film The Thomas Beale Cipher which is currently on the festival warpath. Come out and say hi, we'll be the devilishly handsome ones hanging out after both the Friday and Saturday programs.
The assault that the city of New York has been under for the last week, perpetrated by 5'11, birdlike amazons, garbed in freakish war paint and extravagant, yet bizarrely soft battle armor, is now over. I speak of course of Fashion Week New York which ended yesterday, one of the 4 international fashion weeks which rule the industry and establish the direction the fashion world will take in the coming year.
Short of the Week is now rockin' it like 2009! Visit our new Facebook page and click the "like" button to get our curated short film selections right in your news feed. As an added enticement to follow us, we're adding a new category of post which will be FB-exclusiveSotW Recycledwhere once a week we'll dip into our now over 3-year back catalog of reviews and recommend a past favorite you might not have seen.
Word arrived Stateside this morning, not through any official announcement, but through the tweets of his friends and collaborators. Kon Satoshi, one of the leading lights of Anime, director of the films Perfect Blue and Paprika, has sadly passed away at age 47.
Short of the Week was just hit by the round of malware attacks affecting many innocent Wordpress blogs over the last couple weeks. Fortunately, Google caught the infection early and prevented the attack from doing more harm.
It's fun when mainstream sites do pieces on short film, and in a rare treat, two such articles were published online today. First up is a brief article and slideshow from the online magazine Slate via is DoubleX blog, where contributor Sasha Watson explores the trend of fashion advertising films.
Philips and RSA are at it again for the 6th film in their Parallel Lines series. This one is set to be shot and screened in 3D and released this Fall.
