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The Moment
There’s an old anecdote that is often attributed to writer Ernest Hemingway. Supposedly, according to internet lore (i.e. take it with a grain of salt), someone challenged Hemingway to write a...
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Gogurt
Hilary Bell’s coming-of-age short Gogurt is not a love story nor a comedy. There are no highly choreographed sex scenes and the most exciting thing that happens is a teenage girl getting asked what...
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Frame 394
The internet is a horrible place for nuance. From clickbait social media headlines to incendiary comment sections, the stew of online content only seems to focus on the farthest reaches of the...
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The Champion
Estaifan Shilaita is not a name you’ll know. A taxi driver in Chicago, he is not rich, famous, outwardly successful, and you may not even be able to guess where he is from. However as you’ll discover...
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Home
My first ever post here on Short of the Week focused on the subject of home (amongst other things) and whilst I’d like to think my writing has somewhat progressed in the seven years since I wrote that...
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HIT TV
Ours is a postmodern culture of homages and mashups, appropriation and nostalgia, and it is hard to think of a filmmaker better than Saman Kesh at swallowing up the various strands of pop-culture cool...
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Hound
From dogs in giant spider costumes to dogs who can say “I Love You”, the internet loves watching videos of “man’s best-friend”. Tapping into this appreciation for canine comedy and taking it to the...
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Ironied
We all have those days right? Those days where lots of irritations and inconveniences build on top of one another to the point that, like Donald in this film, we look to the heavens to ask ‘why me’....
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Fired on Mars
Losing your job sucks! Often the only thing that keeps you going in this situation is the thought that things could always be worse. Sadly, this isn’t the case for Jeff, the protagonist of Nate...
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Pearl
We’ve been excited about this project for months, and now that it is out on both YouTube and the Spotlight Stories app, I dare say we were not excited enough! Patrick Osborne’s VR short animation, a...
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Player Two
An embrace of warm nostalgia, Zachary Antell’s thesis animation, Player Two, is an emotional exploration of both brotherhood and video games. Now, I don’t have a brother—my older sister inflicted...
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Next to You
The last time we featured the work of director Maximilian Niemann he was guiding us through a blood-soaked zombie-filled post-apocalyptic world in his adrenaline-fuelled interactive short Five...
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Fangirl
There’s an entire culture of young girls growing up with their teen idols at their fingertips through social media. Liza Mandelup’s Fangirl gives us a glimpse into the minds of these teenage girls and...
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1500 Words
Surprisingly for a man who spends a large majority of his time writing, I’ve never been a man of many words. Growing-up my nickname for a while was Silent Bob (along with Spanish Bob & Liability...
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Overwatch Short Films: As Story Fades From Gaming, Short Film Picks Up the Slack
Video games are big business, as the launch of new blockbuster titles routinely outgross even giant comic book movies on their opening weekends. But, despite Angry Birds taking the #1 spot in the US...
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Nix + Gerber
At the risk of taking this write-up on too much of a digression, a few years back my wife built a dollhouse. It became an impassioned pursuit—a descent into miniature madness. Hours of time were...
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The Tale of Hillbelly
Having made a name for themselves creating jaw-dropping music videos for the likes of Bjork and Metronomy and the recent hit campaign Fly Robot Fly for Ikea, the Encyclopedia Pictura crew bring their...
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Your Hands
If you’ve ever been dumped before, you’ll appreciate how much Your Hands captures the feeling of trying to look fine on the outside but feeling like your life is falling apart on the inside. Georgia...
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Heavy Metal Parking Lot
On this day 30-years ago, armed with a video-camera borrowed from a local public access station, filmmakers John Heyn and Jeff Krulik took to the car-park of the Capital Centre in Maryland and...
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We Live This
As probably one of the only members of the Short of the Week team who has never set foot in New York City, most of my impressions of the legendary metropolis come from film, television and hip-hop (if...
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