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.
Jane suffers from haphephobia (the pathological fear of touch), tormented by years of loneliness and isolation she orders a synthetic love doll online to nightmarish consequences.
A sexy, coming-of-age tale from the acclaimed director of "Apricot". A teenage girl gets a keyhole look into a dangerous and mysterious world when a tattooed stranger checks into her roadside motel.
Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets) stars as Mary, in this terror-filled tale of a young girl left paralysed after an encounter with an evil entity.
A straight married man heads to a gay campground to find his long lost love -- and discovers the past isn't done with him yet.
During a PowerPoint presentation diagrams break free from their restrictions and a trip into the sensual world of statistics begins.
A long-married couple live in resentful silence, their daily reciprocal malice escalating to extremes. In this pressure cooker of a relationship, something will have to give.
Short of the Week checks out Tribeca's VR sidebar, and reports back on the state of the form.
With science fiction story-lines and topics of sexuality proving to be big discussion starters here on Short of the Week, it would have seemed like an opportunity missed if we didn't speak to emerging filmmaker Connor Hurley about his short film The Naturalist. Based around concepts of genetically altering sexual orientation and set in an unspecified dystopian future, we talked to the director about the influence of existing work on his narrative/tone and looked at how he went about creating a timeless aesthetic for his film: It's hard not talk about The Naturalist without first looking at the concept - where did the idea for the narrative come from? I remember I was probably around 12 years old, pursuing both my passion for filmmaking and facing questions of my own sexuality.
Aotearoa: 1600’s. When Hine has her first menstruation she is sent on a journey, accompanied by other women, to undergo a sacred ritual guiding her from child to woman and warrior. However Hine isn’t quite ready to let her childhood go…
