A visual poem combining music, spoken word, dance, and archival footage, "Gold Token" explores Black ancestry and ultimately how society uses the Black experience as a piece of aesthetic consumption.
8 short films in time for Halloween that really get underneath the skin...sometimes literally.
On 08/08/08, as the Super 8 motel chain is on the brink of a massive change, two career loners - a traveller and a townie - make a chance encounter in the motel bar. In the blurry midnight hours, they slowly learn each other's secrets.
So hard! 24 films was the number of films we featured in June, a number that, as always, was whittled down from the immensely higher number of films our team watched. When you're already picky, pruning your selections gets unbearably tough, but that's the point of this series—to highlight some of the truly best of the best, can't-miss shorts of the past month.
Desperate for work, an idealistic college student agrees to a one day trial as a door to door meat salesman.
Director Henry Kaplan breathes life into the undead with this energetic tale of a zombie awakened.
With Sundance right around the corner, we highlight 4 works from the official short film selection that you can check out from home.
Television controls every moment of our lives in this stark animation from Estonia's Martinus Klemet
