In a dystopian Amsterdam of the future, a team of warriors and scientists employ the powers of love and technology in an attempt to save the world from the clutches of an embittered humanoid robot.
A woman walking her dog in the bush has a disturbing encounter with a young girl.
Uniformed troops are rounding up red-headed kids for genocidal purposes in this stark and controversial music video for celebrated recording artist M.I.A (warning: explicit).
As climate change erases the Louisiana coast, the last two teenagers on Isle de Jean Charles fight to stay on an island that's been their family home for generations. The Audience Award Winner at Palm Springs Shortfest.
The humorous requests received at a photographic archive are the fodder for this splendid animation.
In 1994, Michael Thompson was arrested for selling three pounds of cannabis and was sentenced to 42 to 60 years in prison. He is the longest serving non-violent offender in the history of Michigan and he is finally up for clemency
Nothing excites the internet masses (yours truly included) like a best of list. A new one out lists a bunch of really important animation directors and their representative works.
With Oscar voting now open, S/W’s Senior Programmers, Rob Munday, Céline Roustan, and Jason Sondhi, take on the role of voter and whittle the 45-title shortlists down to the 15 short films they think should advance to the nominations round.
It's fun when mainstream sites do pieces on short film, and in a rare treat, two such articles were published online today. First up is a brief article and slideshow from the online magazine Slate via is DoubleX blog, where contributor Sasha Watson explores the trend of fashion advertising films.
The 2017 Grand Prize Winner at Ottawa, a formally groundbreaking animated short. An ugly cat struggles to coexist in a fragmented and broken world, eventually finding a soulmate in a mystical chief.
