When young American Billy brings a red-stained shirt to the dry-cleaning business of an elderly Italian couple, they spend hours inventing intricate yarns about the origin of the stain
As editor of Short of the Week and former Curator of Vimeo's Staff Picks, I've watched dozens of hours of reporting and filmmaking on the Syrian crisis. Here are my picks for the most vital short form work yet produced.
A filmmaker falls through the looking glass when she must face her own terrifying creation.
A stylish and meditative film centering on the unhappy life of a neglected teen, told from the perspective of his neighbor who attempts to make sense of him.
Are short film tie-ins the next trend in blockbuster film marketing? There is good reason to think so
Teenager Ly and her cousins get high before a boisterous family Thanksgiving at Auntie Pinky's house in southeast San Diego in 2006.
A man becomes fixated on trying to open one particular pistachio nut.
Liza Mandelup, Matt Vesely and Michael Lukk Litwak - three filmmakers with features at SXSW 2023 - join us to discuss how short film was important in helping to shape their careers so far.
As you might have noticed, this year we dispense with what has our been our traditional year-in-review Top Ten list (examples here) in order to highlight even more quality deserving content than that stale format allows. The SotW Awards are the result, and last week, after surveying an incredible year's worth of short film picks, we presented our favorite Animation, Live-Action and New Media pieces of 2011.
