Best of the Month
Best of the Month: January 2023
Oscar hopefuls and online premieres make up the S/W team's Best of the Month picks for January 2023
Documentary
Skye Fitzgerald
Lifeboat
One of the nominees for Oscar, volunteers from a German nonprofit risk the waves of the Mediterranean to pluck refugees from sinking rafts in the middle of the night.
The Seven Red Hoods
A bunch of gangsters are on the run after they steal a marvellous treasure. As they hideout in the middle of a strange forest they are slowly becoming legendary characters...
Adventure
Melody Wang
The Casebook of Nips and Porkington
A mouse and pig as members of the constabulary on their quest across a variety of print media elements to return a kidnapped egg to its distraught parents.
Sci‑Fi
Dennis Sungmin Kim
ei: emotional intelligence
The story of an AI unit who is anything but artificial.
Interactive
Tribeca Storyscapes 2016
At this point in time, there are only a handful of festivals taking virtual reality films seriously and the Tribeca Film Festival, with its notable history in support of interactive film, is one of them. Their Storyscapes program introduced a few new experiences that we had a chance to try out.
Experimental
Max Hattler
Collision
A kaleidoscope of national symbols and sounds highlight the tension between America and the Islamic world.
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.
