Spike Jonze's story about two robots in love based on Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree".
Hardly Working sheds a limelight on the characters that normally remain in the background of video games: NPCs. A laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper and a carpenter are observed with ethnographic precision. Their labor routines, activity patterns, as well as bugs and malfunctions, paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.
Winner of the Student Academy Award. When a young Nazi SS soldier is discovered by a theater-troupe of survivors celebrating the end of WWII, he is forced to acknowledge his role in their grief.
Black holes, nuns and Nicholas Cage all feature in this round-up of work from our previously featured filmmakers at this year's SXSW
With the Oscars ceremony taking place this Sunday (March 2nd), the S/W team predict the winners in each of the three short film categories.
Joseph Pierce tells us about his animation process and the importance of staying true to your own ideas.
Against a tellingly hypnotic factory backdrop, a refugee encapsulates the global immigration crisis in his own wrenching words.
We take a look at the 2021 Encounters Film Festival programme and pick out our highlights from this year's extensive selection of short films.
Kickstarter is launching a new initiative to highlight short film projects for the entire month of March. We chat with the company's Director of Documentary, Liz Cook Mowe to learn more.
