We've seen it time and time again. A film plays for an audience on a big screen in a dark theater and brings the audience to tears or has them buckled over in laughter.
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.
Reign of Death, the subject of our recent feature review, is one of the most confidently stylish shorts we've seen in a while. Its director, Matthew Savage, has served as a concept designer for several big budget features including The Dark Knight and Kick-Ass, but, not being content with that arrangement, has been stepping up to the director's chair.
A malfunction at a CIA press event causes a Predator drone installed with an ethical AI personality to go rogue as it attempts to understand its purpose in the world.
Australian short The Landing is one of those film's that's going to leave you with questions. Whether based around the impressive craft on show in the production of the piece or aimed at the cleverly deceptive storyline, Josh Tanner's film is one that demands exploring in greater detail.
Ross Hogg joins us to discuss the challenges of creating a project with short film, 360˚ & installation versions as we preview this year's Encounters Film Festival
We chat with Ryan Spindell, one of horror's most exciting young voices, about indie filmmaking and how to make delightfully gory films on a budget.
Animation super-collective Late Night Work Club return with their latest anthology 'Strangers'
Yesterday afternoon saw the announcement of Sundance's short film lineup for 2014, 66 short films that will play Park City this upcoming January. The competition was fierce, with a revealed total of 8,141 submissions, but, of the myriad things you could do to catch the fleeting but powerful attention of a programmerwrite a great script, discover an amazing subject, or cast a big starkeeping your short film offline, sight unseen, conferred no advantage.
The S/W team has voted. The Short Awards honor the most noteworthy short film streaming releases of the past year.
