A young mortician will give his heart away to find true love. A whimsical, gothic bedtime story filled with love, loss, taxidermy, Kung fu, and biker werewolves.
Holiday-time is the new Super Bowl for advertisements, as marketers and filmmakers combine forces and put their best foot forward in the hope of melting your heart—all in less than 5 minutes.
In the heart of a dark forest, two silhouettes meet, attract and repel each other in an explosive bridal parade.
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.
An ambitious follow-up to a 2012 viral hit. The “Cloud” collapsed and destroyed all the digital data in the world a few years ago. The world has been slowly recovering. But disconnected from his lost love, how can a man move on?
We chat with Ryan Spindell, one of horror's most exciting young voices, about indie filmmaking and how to make delightfully gory films on a budget.
Leo, a Hi-Tech ‘pet’ robot, wanders alone in Paris following the mysterious disappearance of nearly all living species.
When an ex-cop's deathbed confession reveals something terrible, a dutiful daughter is forced to weigh the differences between the stories we tell ourselves and the truth.
With science fiction story-lines and topics of sexuality proving to be big discussion starters here on Short of the Week, it would have seemed like an opportunity missed if we didn't speak to emerging filmmaker Connor Hurley about his short film The Naturalist. Based around concepts of genetically altering sexual orientation and set in an unspecified dystopian future, we talked to the director about the influence of existing work on his narrative/tone and looked at how he went about creating a timeless aesthetic for his film: It's hard not talk about The Naturalist without first looking at the concept - where did the idea for the narrative come from? I remember I was probably around 12 years old, pursuing both my passion for filmmaking and facing questions of my own sexuality.
In Kano City, Northern Nigeria, crowds gather to watch local heroes face off in the ancient Hausa martial art of Dambe. Part battle, part dance, part live mythology, it’s a cultural tradition that has survived and thrived in the region.
