Article
Is AI the Future of Filmmaking?
Overview of how AI may shift the filmmaking world over the coming years—the opportunities and questions it raises.
News
Animator Eran Hilleli's Looom App Wins the Apple Design Award
Short of the Week alum, Eran Hilleli (Between Bears), has turned his 3D animation skills toward the world of software and built an app called Looom to unlock a friendlier and more free-form way to learn animation. It was impressive enough to nab a coveted Apple Design Award today bestowed upon the year's best-designed apps.
Fantasy
Tim Rauch
Mushroom Park
Two friends locked in a love-hate relationship bury a dead frog as rain beings to fall. They make a fateful decision to wait out the storm under a tree and wake up in a world quite unlike the one they left behind.
Drama
Asher Jelinsky
Miller & Son
WINNER OF A 2019 STUDENT ACADEMY AWARD: A transwoman mechanic lives between running her family’s auto shop during the day and expressing her femininity at night, until an unforeseen event threatens the balance of her compartmentalized life.
Oscar Films
Oscar Short Films 2022: A Voter's Guide
With nominee voting for the 2022 Academy Awards opening tomorrow (Thu 27th Jan), we highlight the five standout films from each short film category.
Documentary
Andrew Sales
Aleatoric
Typically incorporating samples of obscure sounds and speech, records like "The Lemon of Pink" have made "The Books" seminal 21st century music artists. A short profile that fascinatingly matches the tone of its filmmaking to the pleasures of their music.
Experimental
Matty Brown
The Distraction
Welcome to your anxiety attack. A 10-minute short exploring the very visceral and disorienting world of living with severe anxiety and depression.
Horror
Sava Zivkovic
Irradiation
After being escorted to a mysterious irradiated site, Evgeniy finds himself experiencing strange visions and questioning the very reason he was sent to investigate the site in the first place.
Documentary
Hannah Engelson
Jonah Stands Up
New Orleans artist and rabble-rouser Jonah Bascle faces his mortality. He leaves behind a legacy of comedy, visual art, and disability advocacy.
Experimental
Lara Gallagher & Andrew Ellmaker
Hollerings: 3 Stories in Wood
The quiet anxieties of wood.
