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.
Laia from Spain and Emil from Iceland are students in Munich. After having sex a couple of times, Emil professes his love to Laia—but she panics and runs away. Now the two have to figure out whether they are more than just a summer fling in this sexually frank, but sweetly tender and funny short film.
Marie Wilcox is the last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language. This is the story of the dictionary she created in an effort to keep her language alive.
We caught up with the Argentina-based horror duo Guille Gatti & Pedro Cristiani to talk about their recent success with Deus Irae and what it takes to make great horror films. The exorcism genre is a familiar one but the premise of Deus Irae is so unique.
A simple fairytale takes a dark turn, in this award-winning adaptation of the director's graphic novel.
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A conflicted narrator leads the viewer through three extreme situations that are actually the same...Will you survive?
An apathetic teenager is dropped off on the outskirts of town to work on a project with the school outcast. The two boys form an unlikely connection, but not without consequences.
Alex Roman invites us into a surreal world of architecture and light with his stunning mastery of CG.
A teenager is forced to mature in a savage world ruled by a god whale, in this short animation inspired by classic genre comics.
