As the SXSW Film Festival gears up this weekend, regular SOTW contributor, Jason B Kohl, sat down with two filmmakers from UCLA's MFA Directing Program en route to Austin. Their shorts couldn't be more different from each other in every aspect from production through post, but the two had many common insights to share.
A lonely musician falls in love with a mysterious being named Allie. What begins as an idyllic romance becomes a fight for his sanity as Allie drags him into the recesses of his own fragile psyche.
A mysterious outbreak of tic disorders among young people leads Dr Robert Bartholomew to question whether social media is making us sick.
Experience the fear and paranoia of New York City during the Summer of 1977 - a time in which the serial killer known as Son of Sam captivated a whole city and media landscape.
A black comedy for kids and parents alike, this festival favourite takes its viewers through a gore-filled alphabet of death as a Father Possum reads a cautionary tale to his two young children.
A stay-at-home dad and self-proclaimed "internet celebrity" ignores an obvious addiction to social media, and attention from strangers, while embarrassing his family with his cringeworthy behavior and the hack "content" he creates.
From one of our most creative current filmmakers, an avant-garde essay that questions how we perceive truth, information and politics, seen through the dual lenses of our real and virtual identities.
A night-out at a Karaoke bar is disturbed by a surreal experience with some truly evil genetically-modified takeout food
As editor of Short of the Week and former Curator of Vimeo's Staff Picks, I've watched dozens of hours of reporting and filmmaking on the Syrian crisis. Here are my picks for the most vital short form work yet produced.
