Best of the Month
Best of the Month: June 2021
An experimental animation, a sports documentary and an award-winning festival drama make up our 'Best of the Month' picks for June
Documentary
Frank Stiefel
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
**Currently Offline** - A 2018 Oscar nominee for Best Short Documentary, this profile captures the inspiring story of Mindy Alper, who traversed a life of crippling phobias and profound mental illness to find redemption and belonging as a successful artist
Experimental
Tom Hardiman
Pitch Black Panacea
Two strangers with lazy eyes take part in an unusual experimental treatment.
GOBELINS l'école de l'image
GOBELINS lécole de l'image: Films of 2017, Part 2
Part 2 of our coverage of the 2017 graduation animations
Festival
Sundance 2011 Short Films Online: Program 4
A new Thursday, a new set of Sundance shorts. This is the second of three batches of 2011 in-competition shorts that Sundance is sharing via the YouTube Screening Room, and the fourth of five short programs.
Documentary
Bill Morrison
Incident
Nominated for Oscar. Through a montage of surveillance and police body-camera footage, a reconstruction of a deadly shooting by a Chicago police officer becomes an investigation into how a narrative begins to take shape in the aftermath.
Action
Abdou Cissé
Festival of Slaps
A celebratory dinner is flipped on its head, when an enraged Nigerian Mum serves her son a set of slaps so powerful that it will change his life forever.
Drama
Lucrèce Andreae
Pépé Le Morse (Grandpa Walrus)
On a windy and cloudy beach, Granny is praying, Mum is shouting, the sisters don’t care, Lucas is alone. Grandpa was a weird guy, now he’s dead.
Interview
Interview with Kurt Nishimura (O Valencia!)
How did you hear about the contest MTVU/Decemberists contest and what made you want to participate? I heard about The Decemberists contest from an e-newsletter that my school put out (The Art Institute of Portland). The deadline was like two weeks away, and I was seriously considering passing it by.
Horror
Carlos Baena
La Noria
From seasoned animator Carlos Baena (ILM, Pixar) and a crowd-sourced community of over 100 people, La Noria tells the tale of a grieving young boy who one day encounters dark creatures that turn his life upside down.
