Last week we introduced the GoShort Festival's online slate of short films, providing quickie reviews of 5 of the 10 selected films. Today we finish up the coverage by taking a look at the remaining 5 films.
On Chinese New Year’s Eve, a 19 year old boy tries to reconnect with his mother after going to kung fu school against her will.
Doctors gave him a five-percent chance of survival when he was born three months pre-mature. Now, he's defying everyone's expectations.
Birdsong explores the dying whistling traditions of the Hmong people of northern Laos, whose sonic exchanges straddle the boundary between music and speech. The film follows the personal stories of three individuals from Long Lan village, as they reflect on their experience as practitioners of a vanishing musical language.
Many filmmakers look at short films as their teenage yearshappy to get past them and on to something bigger. Jossie Malis is one of the few who understood the power he'd created with his minimalist animated short Bendito Machine and has spent the past 6 years building a franchise around it.
From illustrating for Sesame Street to exposing the New World Order, this is the story of the controversial and recently departed David Dees, unofficial artist of conspiracy theory culture. What sent him down the rabbit hole, and is there a path out?
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.
As the theatrical film experience gives up its dominance as the mass-market medium for storytelling, the feature film format seems destined to fade with it. Whats happening?
Yesterday's feature review was Hands Solo, a wicked funny mockumentary about a deaf porn star and the girl who got away. I caught up with the director, William Mager over email to talk about himself, the film, and disability in the movie-industry.
A woman looks into her mind as she chases her ideals on a metaphorical and literal tightrope.
