We kick-off our SXSW Shorts Week coverage with this playlist of 8 short films for the 2020 program that are online and ready to viewed right now. #SXSWshorts
An inquisitive coroner void of human connection finds solace in the company of the recently deceased. When he is called to pick up the remains of a teenage girl, he is gripped by the loose ends she may have left behind.
When dollhouse-builder Shelley meets a fan in person, she realizes that he isn't the "friend" she expected.
Paul is the custodian of a nuclear missile silo, living alone in the vast underground structure. More interested in his passion - painting and sculpting the missile - than his duties, he gets a lousy performance review that threatens his job.
Two Danish soldiers serving in the German military in 1916 during World War I are stranded in a bomb shelter on the Western Front.
When there’s a gun crime in America, there’s only one place to go to trace the gun back to its owner: the ATF’s National Tracing Center, which handles roughly 8,000 active traces per day — all while inside a government-mandated technology time-capsule that makes searching a database of gun owners impossible.
The Animation Workshop brings us a fully-realized world with strong visual metaphors about the pressures of responsibility.
