Short of the Week

Loss

Drama about Loss in Animation
Eoin Duffy / 5 min / Ireland / 2013

A lone traveller makes his way through an airport before finally accepting his journey’s end.

Dark Comedy about Loss in Live-Action
Caleb Slain / 10 min / USA / 2013

A traumatic comedy about life, death, pie and death.

Experimental about Loss in Live-Action
Mitch Jenkins / 32 min / UK / 2012

Comics legend Alan Moore along with Mitch Jenkins unveil a phantasmagoric English dreamtime made of goosefleshed pin-up girls, burned out comedians and faulty lights, with judgement just behind the tinsel.

Documentary about Loss in Photography
Robert-Jan Lacombe / 10 min / Switzerland / 2012

As a 10-year-old growing up in the small African village of Mandima, Robert-Jan Lacombe, the son of European parents, never thought he would have to say goodbye.

Drama about Loss in Animation
Eusong Lee / 4 min / USA / 2012

A graduation animation from CalArts, a spare, powerful 9/11 story that is heartbreakingly perfect.

Documentary about Loss in Animation
Rausch Brothers / USA / 2011

Public Television’s StoryCorps oral history project selected three histories to be animated commemorating the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Fantasy about Loss in 3D Animation
Marius Herzog / 12 min / Germany / 2011

German student Marius Herzog produced this incredible and lush gothic animation as his graduation film in 2009.

Comedy about Loss in Special FX
Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan / 1 min / USA / 2011

The latest, hilarious viral short from DANIELS the team behind the amazing Dogboarding!

Drama about Loss in 3D Animation

A creator’s puppets must struggle to carry on after their master is gone. A bizarrely moving animation from Supinfocom students.

Documentary about Loss in Live-Action
Ransom Riggs / 6 min / USA / 2011

Writer/filmmaker Ransom Riggs directs this poetic look at the doomed inland desert oasis, “The Salton Sea”.

Drama about Loss in Performance
Kseniya Simonova / 8 min / Ukraine / 2010

A beautiful performance in sand animation depicting the German invasion of Ukraine in WWII.

Experimental about Loss in Stop-Motion
Hayley Morris / 6 min / USA / 2010

A hand-crafted stop-motion that serves as a poignant metaphor for the debilitating effects of Alzheimer’s disease.

Documentary about Loss in Live-Action
Eliot Rausch / 6 min / USA / 2010

As Oden’s struggle with cancer comes to end, Jason must to say goodbye to his best friend in this touching film that took home the top prize in the first annual Vimeo Awards.

Fantasy about Loss in Animation
Eddie White, Ari Gibson / 8 min / Australia / 2009

A dark, animated fantasy pulled off with style and panache. The Musicians of this cat-town have disappeared, sacrificed to the infernal Cat Piano. Our world-weary hero must fight to get them back.

Myth about Loss in Live-Action
Benh Zeitlin / 25 min / USA / 2009

A hopeful human tale of mythological proportions shot on location in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Adventure about Loss in 3D Animation
Marc Craste / 13 min / UK / 2009

Love traverses all obstacles in this award-winning animation about a circus performer and a lone admirer who hopes to free her.

Music Video about Loss in Live-Action
Up the Resolution / 12 min / UK / 2009

A multi-track music video film that touches on what happens after the happy ending and the struggles of dealing with the loss that follows.

Drama about Loss in Animation
Ian Mackinnon / 7 min / UK / 2008

Love inspires, but the fear of losing love causes an animator to obsessively record the moments he and his love share. An innovative mix of live-action and flipbook animation.

Drama about Loss in Live-Action
Daryl Wein / 11 min / USA / 2008

A young woman refuses to acknowledge her grief over her mom’s cancer until she meets someone on the street who may understand. Or maybe what he wants is more sinister.

Sci-Fi about Loss in Live-Action
Wong Kar Wai / 8 min / China / 2008

Gorgeously garish lighting accentuates this sci-fi piece by renowned auteur Wong Kar Wai. Agent 006 is undercover to catch the mysterious, charismatic “Light”, but wrestles with her own feelings in doing so.

Drama about Loss in Animation

A moving tale of a daughter, an absent father, and the ties we share that surpass time or logic

Fantasy about Loss in Live-Action
Phillip Van / 3 min / USA / 2008

Beautifully shot film about a woman’s loss of innocence at the hand of the world.

Drama about Loss in Collage Animation
Tony Comley / 7 min / UK / 2007

Fluid collection of thoughts and moments strung together around the theme of desperately searching for something you’ve lost—all while on a plane that is nose-diving.

Drama about Loss in Claymation
Suzie Templeton / 6 min / UK / 2007

BAFTA-winning claymation explores the suffocating atmosphere in a young boy’s household, as he and his father must confront their dog’s deteriorating condition.