Best of the Month
Best of the Month: June 2019
Check out the best of our June coverage as the S/W team selects their favourite films from over three-and-a-half hours of viewing
Fantasy
Przemyslaw Adamski
& Katarzyna Kijek
Slow Light
A boy who was born blind, suddenly at the age of seven sees a light. A medical examination reveals that his eyes are so dense that it takes seven years for the light to reach the retina and hence for the image to reach his consciousness.
Filmmaker Update
Filmmaker Updates: December 2020
From high-profile Christmas ads to box-office features, we take a look at the exciting new projects from filmmakers previously featured on Short of the Week
The Grey Matter
An office stiff wakes up in an alley mysteriously covered in blood. In the aftermath, he attracts the attention of his beautiful coworker, granting him a new lease on life ...but something strange is afoot.
Documentary
Valerie Barnhart
Girl in the Hallway
Why does 'Little Red Riding Hood' give Jamie nightmares? It's been 15 years, and the girl in the hallway haunts him still in this nightmarish mixed-media animation based the recounting of a true crime.
Festival
The Short Films of 2019 Sundance Feature Filmmakers
In advance of Sundance, we highlight new features and episodic projects from our short film alumni
Fantasy
Till Nowak
Dissonance
A genius musician struggles to escape his psychotic mind and make his dream of playing music to his daughter become a reality.
Fantasy
Stuart Bowen
Woody
Ever since he was a child, Woody has dreamt of playing piano. The problem is that he only has wooden paddles for hands.
Article
(Why you can't) Watch the Short Film that became the Oscar winning Whiplash
Why did so many reputable news & entertainment outlets featuring a short film that was so obviously an unofficial copy?
Sci‑Fi
Grzegorz Jonkajtys
The 3rd Letter
High-level CG is married to live-action in a haunting dystopian vision of a world where humans utterly depend on bio-mechanical alterations to withstand a deteriorating climate.
