Happy Holidays everyone! Ivan prepared a YouTube show on Dark, Twisted Holiday shorts just this month you should check out, however, at this point, I'm a wee bit tired of shorts that explicitly reference the season. There has to be more than that to make a classic.
Inspired by a true story, Lizzy, battles loneliness and boredom by robbing banks on her lunch break. But after the adrenaline rush wears off, she still has to deal with her deeply unhappy life.
A surreal portrait of a young woman as she finds her place within a roadside harem, a nighttime truck stop becomes an ominous playground for sexual desires and something much more strange.
When a terrorist bombing killed Tyler Dunning's best friend, the news sent him down a dark path. His only solace? Exploring national parks. And through the adventures that unfolded, he pieced his life back together.
Max is a seven-year-old deaf boy growing up in the 1960s. One day he goes on a school trip to the zoo, where he sees a lion for the first time. A feeling begins to grow inside him that will change his life forever.
A set of strange creatures whose instincts, rather than focus on survival, seem to doom them to an absurd and comic extinction.
An experimental fairytale dedicated to the modern black boy, in which four boys disappear one night, as many black boys do, and find themselves on a fantastical journey to break the curses of black boyhood.
After beating cancer a boy realizes he can no longer lie to himself and faces an identity crisis. Seduced by the muscular bodies of bodybuilders, he begins to explore his physique and his sexuality.
S/W's Queen of Festivals, Céline Roustan, was on the ground for The Toronto International Film Festival. She shares her short film notebook, highlighting winners, new work from site alums, and her personal faves from the fest's 2019 edition.
A couple has mysteriously begun to split into many copies of themselves, and as they try to get a handle on the situation and their own relationship, a new mutation destabilizes their world even further.
