16 year old Adam cruelly teases a classmate. When he seeks her out to apologise, she has quite different plans for him. Years later, when least expected, the memory of this event comes back to haunt Adam.
Late at night, Alex (17) and his father Erich (50) are having a game at a tennis court, during which Alex tries to bring up his father's failing business and unintentionally hits a nerve. Erich reacts with aggression.
In the not-too-distant future, a water smuggler navigates a tumultuous, dystopian city on the brink of a water shortage.
A boyfriend's jealous impulse spirals out of control in 16 minutes of romantic doom.
The SXSW-featured followup from the team behind "Notes on Biology and "Euphonia". A nineteen year old finds himself alone in a hostile desert, scared as hell, and trained to react.
A beautiful performance in sand animation depicting the German invasion of Ukraine in WWII.
After leaving the city for a life in the country, a couple's relationship is upended by the arrival of a peculiar visitor.
Adam Banks / Cincinnati Contributor / @akbanx With each passing year, life seems to get busier and busier, and with this escalation of busy-ness comes an annoying choice: you can either sacrifice something you love doing because the other thing takes up too much time, or you can say “fuck it” and double down on both. For me, Thing 1 was screening and writing about films for Short of the Week (my favorite sidegig ever), and Thing 2 was working as a crew member on feature films (a massive timesuck that I very much love being a part of).
Nara grows up on a beach in Brazil with her best friend Tayra. Her home is a paradise which will soon be lost.
Winner of the 'Best Short Film, Animated' Oscar at the 2003 Academy Awards, Adam Elliot's 'Harvie Krumpet' is the "Clayography" of a lonely man cursed with perpetual bad luck.
