We totally adore this edition of our YouTube show! It's our shortest playlist yet, but perhaps the most intriguing. Our indomitable host, Ivan Kander, puts his critic hat firmly on to praise the innovative editing work of rising short form star Max Joseph.
A cherished tradition, every year Sundance releases a selection of short films from their competition lineup onto the internet for the duration of the fest. It is an excellent way for fans at home to connect with the goings on, and for short film fans in particular, a great way to spy some of the year's top shorts early in their festival run.
Sit back, relax & let our top picks for January act as inspiration to stick to your New Year resolutions...or dump them by the side of the road.
Working underground in the year before the legalization of cinema in Saudi Arabia, a team of mostly women shoots its first feature-length movie amid societal pushback.
Horror shorts can be a lot of things: campy, funny, gory, spooky, even sweet. For this playlist we don't want any of that—these are shorts to inspire fear.
A year in the life of a guy and his car. A funny/romantic/tragic short film.
The act of transporting an old mattress into a new walk-up apartment becomes absurdist, cinematic one-woman choreography in this nearly wordless vignette from Adinah Dancyger, full of humor and pathos, and painfully familiar to city-dwellers.
A woman with a black hole for a head, a charity badminton tournament and a world full of happy dildos and flaccid-nosed creatures all feature in one of our weirdest Best of the Month playlists ever.
**CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - The genesis of the Don Hertzfeld cult is this beloved stick-figure animation of an earnest guy who is consistently struck down by unsympathetic women.
Dystopian worlds, unexpected Horror and Milk & Cookies - join us for our 'Best of the month' round-up.
