At this point in time, there are only a handful of festivals taking virtual reality films seriously and the Tribeca Film Festival, with its notable history in support of interactive film, is one of them. Their Storyscapes program introduced a few new experiences that we had a chance to try out.
Steven Fuller is a winter caretaker who has lived at Yellowstone national park for the past 50 years. As the cold weather approaches and the seasonal transformation begins, he hunkers down in his remote mountain cabin. But Fuller and Yellowstone face an uncertain future, with the climate crisis threatening to forever change one of North America’s last great wildernesses
The top 7 films in 2011 were all sequelsand three of those are part of franchises that made the same list 10 years ago. We all know there's a lack of original stories coming from Hollywood these days, but just how bad is it?
Filmmaker Michael Frei releases 'Kids' - a game of crowds, his latest collaboration with game designer Mario von Rickenbach.
In the vein of Sci-Fi VFX shorts like “The Raven” and “Rosa”, Wes Ball creates a thrilling and gorgeous CG chase sequence, sure to draw the attention of Hollywood.
This year has been a big year for Short of the Week. Let's take a moment to look back on where we've been and look ahead to where we're going.
Florian Grolig ('In the Distance') joins us to discuss his new mobile puzzle game 'High Rise'
As you might have noticed, this year we dispense with what has our been our traditional year-in-review Top Ten list (examples here) in order to highlight even more quality deserving content than that stale format allows. The SotW Awards are the result, and last week, after surveying an incredible year's worth of short film picks, we presented our favorite Animation, Live-Action and New Media pieces of 2011.
Distinctively captured via Light Detection and Ranging equipment (LiDAR), this meditative short that played Sundance 2021 centers on a protagonist spurred to introspection when an AI algorithm denies his life insurance application.
Text messages on an old Nokia phone tell the story of a 3-year relationship, and raises questions over how we communicate in an increasingly electronic world.
