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The Disappearance of Willie Bingham
If you’re looking for something spooky to watch this Friday the 13th, look no further than Matt Richard’s The Disappearance of Willie Bingham. In what feels like the retelling of a classic ghost...
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Others Will Follow
While it may use interplanetary space travel as its narrative device, at its core, Andrew Finch’s Others Will Follow is a film about inspiration. It uses a larger conceit to show how sometimes the...
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A Subway Story
When I was a hopeless romantic attending college in DC (i.e. a loser), I often would imagine meeting my soulmate on the subway. We’d lock eyes from across the car. Music—that only we could hear—would...
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Spring
Female friendship can be a very strong bond with a mix of complex emotions at any age, but when dealing with teenagers the dynamic is turbocharged. Throw in hormones and the confusion of nascent...
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Learn: 1st World Problems
The realms of Music Video and Short Film, once distinct, are continually converging. From the POV of directors, the impulse is two-way—when I was a curator at Vimeo, I was routinely interacting with...
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PYOTR495
Halloween is fast approaching and watching your favorite scary movies is a necessity. Needless to say, PYOTR495 should make your list. In a season where horror is most coveted, it gives us a chance to...
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Here's The Plan
Here’s the Plan, Fernanda Frick’s ambitious 18min short film, is notable for its audacity—the audacity to tell a relationship story about two people who genuinely love each other and work to support...
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I Know You From Somewhere
One of the situations I dread the most is interviews, and in I Know You From Somewhere not only does Katherene (and not Katherine) finds herself in one, she also has to explain an embarrassing online...
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Introducing the S/W Shop!
We are excited to open the doors to our new Short of the Week Shop where you can purchase custom shirts, bags, sweatshirts and other accessories. Everything has been designed in-house with the highest...
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Garden Party
The Godfather is a classic, there’s no denying it! But like all mafia based films there’s one thing it’s missing – a gang of frogs running havoc in a gangster’s paradise. Never fear though – Short of...
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KISS KISS FINGERBANG
When it comes to short film concepts, director Gillian Wallace Horvat doesn’t f*** around. First she served up a WTF satire about a branding intern who gets f***** up the a** with a bottle of high-end...
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Working With Jigsaw
Think your 9 to 5 job is killing you? Try working with the world’s most cunning, tiny puppet who takes office pranks to a whole new, deadly level. Directed by Chris Capel, Working with Jigsaw is 3...
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DIVE
Here is a head trip: what do you do when even your own reflection can’t look at you? Dive is a metaphysical dark comedy with an offbeat aura, which manages to be hysterically funny and achingly...
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Pombo Loves You
The story of a father trying to shake-off the ghosts of his past, Steve Warne’s NFTS grad film Pombo Loves You is a riotous mix of stylised stop-motion and heady nostalgia that makes for one hell of a...
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The Body
Kicking off our Halloween-themed selections for the year is The Body, an overlooked gem from the recent past. Winner of the Méliès d’Or as Europe’s Best Fanastic Short Film in 2014 (we’ve previously...
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A Truly Scary Short Film Playlist
Horror comes in a lot of flavors, and short filmmakers like to explore all of them. We’re definitely in a post-modern era of meta-horror, where the genre is a playground for subversion. Horror...
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Born Again
We’ve all got that one friend! Always late. Always wrong. Always f*cking sh*t up. For most of us we can shrug it as just another [insert friend’s name here] moment, but for the four other Satanists in...
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Death Metal
For your Halloween enjoyment, we present the newest film from S/W favorite Chris McInroy, Death Metal. As the title’s double entendre suggests, it’s a film that’s literally about hardcore rock, and...
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One Up
Being a teenager is terrifying enough – finding your place among peers, preparing for college, or being part of a sports team – without the explosion of hormones. For some their developing sexual...
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the gf club
With the announcement last month that AIM will be shutting down in December, a wave of pre-pubescent nostalgia wiped over me. Like many a millennial, my pre-teen years were spent wasting time on AOL’s...
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