The Gray Area
A trailer in the desert—with its dust and strange beauty—became the home for a family of three. They live in a financial state that is becoming increasingly common throughout the US, a level of poverty they call “The Gray Area.”
A trailer in the desert—with its dust and strange beauty—became the home for a family of three. They live in a financial state that is becoming increasingly common throughout the US, a level of poverty they call “The Gray Area.”
An afternoon rehearsal for a high school girl's choir turns tense in Jennifer Reeder's surreal award-winning reverie on the process of coming of age.
As a composer uses music to connect with the ghost of her dead lover, her mind starts to spiral into chaos.
Symbolic remix of the world's modern travesties rendered with an incredible level of polish by a new Canadian animation studio.
On a lake, a heron is fishing while winter arrives.
A look back at the year that was 2023 and all we achieved on Short of the Week & Shortverse.
Good artists copygreat artists steal. How everything from music to movies is influenced, based on, or derivative of previous genius.
The S/W team honors the most noteworthy short film streaming releases of the past year.
We invited the lovely and talented Emily Carmichael to answer a few questions over email regarding her short film, The Hunter and the Swan Discuss Their Meeting, which incidentally was, by far, one of our favorite Sundance films of the year.
Experience a ground-level view of the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests in this Oscar-nominated short from Field of Vision. Visceral and pulse-pounding, Anders Hammer provides unprecedented access to the participants as they fight against the mainland Chinese government—actions spurred by the passage of a new Beijing-backed national security law.