A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future in Don Hertzfeldt's 2016 Oscar nominated short.
After going for an x-ray, a young handsome man is horrified to learn that the weird, tumour-like lump on his chest is the top of a tiny plump man`s head.
Headliners, features, pilots, shorts - We take a look at our previously featured filmmakers in the 2022 SXSW program.
Virgin Media Shorts is fun online competition out of the UK that just finished up its third year. Sponsored by the giant Branson-lead conglomerate in collaboration with the ubiquitous UK Film Council, the event's tagline is "Championing Undiscovered Talent".
An ode to crazy dads. A poetic and humorous portrait of a father-daughter relationship.
Joaquin, a 40 year old driving instructor, struggles to survive in a city where he arrived years ago as an undocumented worker.
With science fiction story-lines and topics of sexuality proving to be big discussion starters here on Short of the Week, it would have seemed like an opportunity missed if we didn't speak to emerging filmmaker Connor Hurley about his short film The Naturalist. Based around concepts of genetically altering sexual orientation and set in an unspecified dystopian future, we talked to the director about the influence of existing work on his narrative/tone and looked at how he went about creating a timeless aesthetic for his film: It's hard not talk about The Naturalist without first looking at the concept - where did the idea for the narrative come from? I remember I was probably around 12 years old, pursuing both my passion for filmmaking and facing questions of my own sexuality.
A young woman teaches an elderly lady how to text on her new phone with all the exasperation that entails. A sweet and charming comedy, you’ll chuckle at first but end up surprised when you reach for tissues.
From isolated whaling towns to post-apocalyptic worlds, journey through a universe of animated awesomeness in the 2017 grad films from Denmark's The Animation Workshop
An injured jockey tries to endure nine races on nine horses over the course of one unforgiving night on the track. He will test the limits of his body and find what exists in the grey area between pain and beauty — if it doesn’t destroy him first.
