Festival
A Shorts-centric Preview of SXSW 2025
With more than 21 S/W alums featured in the 2025 SXSW lineup, let’s dive into their films and see what they have in store!
Adventure
Geremy Jasper
Outlaws
Biker gangs, motorcycle jumps, circus freaks and a love triangle all figure into this lush, visually stunning trek through the 1950's American west, starring David Beckham.
Dark Comedy
Doron Hagay
Erica Wexler is Online
Everyone writes to Erica Wexler on her Facebook, and she's great about responding. But Erica Wexler is dead.
Comedy
Stefan Georgiou
SexLife
Dan and Mia haven't had sex since before the birth of their son. Three months on, Dan turns to Tim Curry and The Rocky Horror Picture Show in an attempt to get the spark back into their relationship.
Documentary
Isabel Castro
Darlin
Selected for the NyTimes Op/Docs, "Darlin" follows a Honduran family in the months after their separation under the zero tolerance policy.
Romance
Katy Wang
Contact
Stranded on a distant planet, a lonely astronaut sends out a signal in search of human contact.
Documentary
Total Refusal
Hardly Working
Hardly Working sheds a limelight on the characters that normally remain in the background of video games: NPCs. A laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper and a carpenter are observed with ethnographic precision. Their labor routines, activity patterns, as well as bugs and malfunctions, paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.
Drama
Victoria Rivera
Verde
Emilia and Martina have always been inseparable, but when their cousins come over on a hot summer day, Emilia learns that her sister's priorities might be changing.
News
Soft: Update
One of my personal favorite shorts, Soft, by British director Simon Ellis has come home to the internet. I reviewed the film in 2008, however the article at that time linked to a pirated copy of the film, and that video was soon taken down.
SOTW
Introducing Paper.
A year ago, I released my film, The Thomas Beale Cipher, online. Since then, many have asked me 'what's next?' Certainly another film seemed like the obvious next step.
