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    Experimental Nikita Diakur

    Backflip

    Attempting a backflip is not safe. You can break your neck, or land on your head, or land badly on your wrists. None of that is nice, so my avatar does the trick. It practices on a 6-core processor with the help of Machine Learning.

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    Dark Comedy Colin Tilley
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    Mr Happy

    Chance the Rapper stars in music-video director Colin Tilley's debut short 'Mr Happy' - a film about a depressed young man looking to end it all.

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    Interview with Connor Hurley (The Naturalist)

    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.

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    Interview with Jossie Malis (Bendito Machine)

    Many filmmakers look at short films as their teenage years—happy 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.

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    Experimental Alessandro Bavari

    Metachaos

    Metachaos is a multi-disciplinary project from accomplished, ambitious, Italian artist Alessandro Bavari, which includes a photo-set, mixed-method paintings and this short film, an 8min assault on the senses

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    Dark Comedy JJ Shpall

    Date Nite

    In a world defined by a virus that preys on romantic desire, a lonely man risks his life for a chance at human connection. A dystopian rom-com about finding love in an age when physical distance breeds emotional distress.

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    Drama David O'Reilly

    Please Say Something

    Simple, fresh animation about the complex relationship between a cat and mouse.

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    Atom Films, Now Strictly Comedy

    A favorite short film host, Atom Films, has decided to narrow its once broad library of films to focus purely on comedy. It joins the likes of SuperDeluxe, Jib Jab, and FunnyOrDie—publishing original comedic web series and user-produced comedy films.

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    10 Questions with Matthew Savage (Reign of Death)

    Reign of Death, the subject of our recent feature review, is one of the most confidently stylish shorts we've seen in a while. Its director, Matthew Savage, has served as a concept designer for several big budget features including The Dark Knight and Kick-Ass, but, not being content with that arrangement, has been stepping up to the director's chair.

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    Experimental Greg Barth

    Epic Fail

    From one of our most creative current filmmakers, an avant-garde essay that questions how we perceive truth, information and politics, seen through the dual lenses of our real and virtual identities.

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