SOTW | September 2, 2010
SotW Arrives on Facebook
Short of the Week is now rockin’ it like 2009! Visit our new Facebook page and click the “like” button to get our curated short film selections right in your…
Short of the Moment | August 24, 2010 | 3 Comments
Kon Satoshi: Good Morning; Magnetic Rose
Word arrived Stateside this morning, not through any official announcement, but through the tweets of his friends and collaborators. Kon Satoshi, one of the leading lights of Anime, director of…
Short of the Moment | August 18, 2010 | 1 Comment
The Banker
Avatar Days
Documentary
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Life & Society
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Special FX
August 10, 2010
What if fantasy characters from World of Warcraft existed in our world? That’s what this documentary from Dublin explores, and I in turn explore how the film is perfect representative of short film today.
News | August 5, 2010
Short Film Articles in NyTimes, Slate
It’s fun when mainstream sites do pieces on short film, and in a rare treat, two such articles were published online today. First up is a brief article and slideshow…
Q&A | July 18, 2010 | 1 Comment
10 Questions w/ “Reign of Death” Dir: Matthew Savage
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…
Announcement | July 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
Fluxus 2010 Online Film Fest
Just stumbled upon something really cool by complete accident! Maybe I should be ashamed to call myself an <ahem> “short film expert” and not have heard of this since it’s…
Reign of Death
Film Noir
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Crime
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Special FX
July 7, 2010
1940′s visual styling combines with a futuristic setting in this sci-fi take on the hardboiled gumshoe. Now in development as a feature.
Crossbow
Drama
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Childhood
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Live-Action
June 29, 2010
A stylish and meditative film centering on the unhappy life of a neglected teen, told from the perspective of his neighbor who attempts to make sense of him
The Un-Gone
Sci-Fi
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Life & Society
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Live-Action
June 14, 2010
Beam me up! Transporters are a reality in this spare, realistic sci-fi short. However they are not perfect, as one man is about to find out.
Short of the Moment | June 9, 2010 | 2 Comments
The Silence Beneath the Bark
It’s almost summer, and we’re heading into the thick of the festival season. A pretty big one just wrapped up in Toronto over the weekend, the Worldwide Short Film Festival,…
Short of the Moment | June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
Hillcoat’s Red Dead Redemption Machinima
To keep you abreast of notable developments in the world of short film, I’ll weigh in on what has become a well-reported event on the internets—on Monday IGN released on…
Elevated
Thriller
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Desperation
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Live-Action
June 8, 2010
A taut horror-thriller set entirely within an elevator, this short film from Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Splice), is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.
Filmmaker Update | May 28, 2010
Papiroflexia
I was catching up on some back catalog in the YouTube Screening Room this week when I stumbled upon this brief under-3 minute gem. The category of this post is ‘Filmmaker…
Short of the Moment | May 27, 2010 | 5 Comments
The Raven
We’ve been taking it easy the last month, but we’re ready to kick it into high gear again with quality recommends. First though I want to weigh in on a…
Short of the Moment | May 26, 2010
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
I’ll be upfront, this is not a free film. It is available for $1 from Mubi, the new name of the website “The Auteurs”, a nice service which fills a…
Announcement | May 4, 2010 | 2 Comments
6th NFB Online Short Film Competition at Cannes
Continuing what has become a beloved tradition, today kicked off the National Film Board of Canada’s Online Short Film Contest. We let you know about it last year too, but if…
Short of the Moment | April 29, 2010 | 3 Comments
The Return of John Frum
A really exciting independent student animation, creator Christian Schlaeffer managed to find the geek buttons hidden somewhere on my body and hit them so hard that they overrode my brain—which…
The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9
Dark Comedy
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Other Worlds
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Flash Animation
April 27, 2010
A grizzled spaceman comes to Alpha-9 to hunt down a vicious monster
Short of the Moment | April 21, 2010 | 3 Comments
Dinosaur Curtains
I have to imagine you all are getting a bit tired of these overly short films I keep highlighting. Let’s see…1, 2, 3…by my count this is the 7th(!) of…
Filmmaker Update | April 14, 2010
Night Mayor
I show Canada to itself, the sum of ordinary things, ordinary things made miraculous!
Canada’s own Guy Maddin is delightfully weird. He is one of few successful feature filmmakers to…
Plastic Bag
Drama
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Nature
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Live-Action
April 12, 2010
Werner Herzog gives voice to a plastic bag’s existential crisis. A very unique and powerful filmmaking statement by celebrated director Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart).
SOTW | April 8, 2010
Updating the Archive
Going to embark on some overdue maintenance over the next week or two. Mainly we’ll be updating broken links. If you’ve noticed past entries that no longer connect to video,…