Aaron sings in choir, watches soap operas and sleeps with the nightlight on. Can hypnosis solve the mystery of his missing friend?
Director Tony Zosherafatain and producer Jamie DiNicola join us to discuss how they went from making short films to producing a four-part documentary series for Topic.
Toronto native Jamie Travis has been making short films for more than a decade. When he finally made the leap to features (his debut For a Good Time, Call premiered at Sundance and will hit cinemas this fall), he gave shorts lovers everywhere a wonderful gift by releasing all his previous work online.
Jamie has a profound learning disability. Despite being close to nonverbal, he demonstrates charisma, a sharp sense of humour, and emotional sensitivity.
The film Roger Ebert declared should win the Oscar, this video essay is a homage to Vertov's classic, "Man with a Movie Camera".
Why does 'Little Red Riding Hood' give Jamie nightmares? It's been 15 years, and the girl in the hallway haunts him still in this nightmarish mixed-media animation based the recounting of a true crime.
A portrait of the sculptor, Dony Mac Manus, who has rejected much of contemporary art in favor of a return to the ideals of the renaissance. Dony's life and work raises questions about our experience of time and history. How do we navigate the past, tradition, and form our identity in the present in response to these forces?
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.
A dark comedy about a neurotic but driven 17-year-old Chinese-American violinist on a mission to get admitted to Harvard at any cost.
Visitors from across the nation gather at a sea of white flags to honor loved ones lost to COVID-19. As they mourn en masse, we witness their many expressions of loss and humanity.
