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The Emperor of Time
An unfaithful wife. Her murdered lover. An abandoned son, dropped off at the orphanage. Then, after ridding himself of domestic distractions, Eadweard Muybridge went on to become a pioneer of early...
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Seth
The midnight shorts program at SXSW is one of the jewels of the fest, and one of the best programs of its kind in festival-land. Lines circled around the block to get in this year, and that was just...
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The Perfect Fourth
I’ve often begrudged the way that many young filmmakers overuse the subject of grief as a storytelling device in their short films. The worst offender is the “grieving parents” narrative. I don’t mean...
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Bobby Yeah
Summarised rather loosely as ‘the adventures of a petty thug’ in its Vimeo description, Robert Morgan’s Bobby Yeah is a nightmarish stop-motion vision destined to haunt your memories long after...
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Giselle
Giselle from director Dan Chen manages to do something that very few shorts get right: it nails the feeling of a particular state of mind, of a particular moment. In this instance, it’s about a man...
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Cigarette Candy
Stories about veterans are fraught territory for filmmakers. No other cinematic character is so ripe for descent into partisan cliché, be it respectful liberal weepiness, or unbridled conservative...
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Accidents, Blunders and Calamities
Inspired by Edward Gorey’s abecedarian book The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Accidents, Blunders and Calamities from James Cunningham and his Media Design School students is a dark, fun/gore-filled 5-min short...
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Best Films of the Month: June
So hard! 24 films was the number of films we featured in June, a number that, as always, was whittled down from the immensely higher number of films our team watched. When you’re already picky,...
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Make Inishturk Great Again
We are truly in a golden age of short form, topical documentary content on the internet. And, with fine purveyors of interesting cultural stories like MEL Magazine, things will only continue to get...
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Powers of Ten
On a day when NASA celebrated its Juno probe successfully entering Jupiter’s orbit after a five year voyage from Earth, we take a journey through space in what is considered ‘one of most famous short...
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Home Suite Home
From the maddening walls of the isolated Overlook Hotel in The Shining to the decaying grandeur of the ski resort in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, these temporary residences for tourists...
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Man Under
Every New York subway rider knows not to pass the bright yellow line on the platform as a train approaches. Sadly, some passengers pass this line in hopes to end it all. Man Under is a personal...
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A Look at the Short Films of Abbas Kiarostami
The international film community mourns the passing of one of its greatest masters this week. Abbas Kiarostami’s films are intimate, contemplative pieces that pose complex questions. For many, his...
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Hipopotamy
The controversial winner of numerous animation festivals throughout 2014 and 2015, Piotr Dumała’s short film is guaranteed to provoke a reaction in viewers. Eyewitness testimony confirms that the film...
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1985
1985, the latest short for Texas-based filmmaker Yen Tan, is a film of subtle grace. Deliberate and concise, it nonetheless summons great power through a quiet affirmation of humanity and connection,...
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The New Filmmaker
We’re in the midst of a creative revolution. In the 10 years since we started Short of the Week, we’ve witnessed the accelerating pace of technology reshape every aspect of filmmaking from how...
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The Pig Child
Horror is one of my least favourite genres in the short film format. Riddled with clichés and populated with predictable plots, for a bracket of storytelling focussed on scares, I’ve always been...
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After the End
From Richard Matheson’s Robert Neville to Pixar’s Wall-E, stories revolving around the lone inhabitants of Earth have seen these sole survivors endure great ordeals as they strive to survive their...
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The New Filmmaker: Stephan Zlotescu
In 2009, an unknown effects-laden sci-fi short, Panic Attack, grabbed the attention of Hollywood proving the internet had opened a new path for aspiring directors. That success spawned thousands of...
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BÄR
A grandfather’s life fondly recounted through the warmth of family photos, played as slideshow, might not exactly sound like the innovative storytelling we strive to feature on Short of the Week, but...
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