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Best Films of the Month: October
We like to find threads that connect the 3 films we select every month for our “Best of the Month” designation, and this month, fittingly, it is violence. It’s hard to find 3 more different approaches...
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Monster Factory
Performances are tough in short documentaries. An interesting subject on paper doesn’t reliably make for an engaging subject on camera. It’s a smooth move therefore to pick out performing artists as...
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Twentysomething
Perfectly capturing the listless, “what-do-I-do-next” feeling of being in your twenties, director/writer Avital Siegel’s Twentysomething is a #longshort worth recommending. If you were in an elevator...
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Filmmaker Update: Oct 2017
Short of the Week’s mission is not just to program the best short films around for you to watch, but also help discover and champion creators with new and diverse viewpoints. In that spirit, we want...
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I Am Here
Short of the Week favorite Eoin Duffy (On Departure) returns to the site with I Am Here. It’s been a few years since Duffy’s last major short film release, the Oscar short-listed The Missing Scarf, so...
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The Last Time
Bad habits are hard to stub out. In The Last Time, Christine Hooper (On Loop) reminisces over her own struggles to quit smoking, using an endearing and fresh approach to storytelling, which will...
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La Petite Mort
Sex can be pretty messy. And I don’t just mean physically. It is a slippery slope down an emotional black hole, planted with embarrassment, fear and pain along the way, and once you’re sucked in,...
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Marina and Adrienne
A beautiful, yet harrowing short as turbulent as the seas on which it is set, Lucy Campbell (The Pig Child) returns to Short of the Week with Marina and Adrienne – an unforgettable tale of two...
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YES, GOD, YES
Early internet porn, Nancy from Stranger Things, masturbation, it’s easy to see why Karen Maine’s YES, GOD, YES has racked up two million views on Vimeo. Described by its creator as “a love story...
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The Rabbit Hunt
Patrick Bresnan, along with his filmmaking and life partner, Ivete Lucas, have been making visual works together for 8 years since meeting on a photography trip through Mexico. Together their output...
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Sea Pilgrim
After a five minute Skype call with sailor Tassio Azambuja, director Will Mayer booked a plane ticket to Panama and set out to document the life of a stranger. After journeying through the jungle on a...
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Icarus
There may come a day when I get tired of human-robot banter, but until then, I will take great joy in films like Tom Teller’s Icarus, a suspenseful live action-VFX hybrid about two astronauts (mother...
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I Turn to Jello
An enigmatic musician-turned-actor once told me about a deer that got stuck in his fenced-in garden. It had no problem jumping into the enclosure, but once the deer filled up on vegetables, it...
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The Night I Dance With Death
Animated drug trips are the best kind of drug trips—all the psychedelia, none of the existential terror. Still, many judge the highs to be worth the risk, and The Night I Dance With Death (La Nuit Le...
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Blood and Water
It’s a tried and true cinematic formula: the sports comeback story. I won’t argue that director Brian Blum’s Blood and Water does much to innovate on a somewhat common story playbook, but, by...
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I Have Something To Tell You
It’s no secret that profile documentaries about artists are a bit exhausted. In fact, I’d go as far as to say that they can be nauseating in how they take themselves so seriously. Why then, would we...
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Sweet Things
We welcome back Nordic filmmaker Henry K. Norvalls to the site today with another thought-provoking short that demonstrates his keen sense of social consciousness. Norvalls likes to create tightly...
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Sleeping with the fishes
Meet Sonja. There may be plenty of fish in the sea, but for her, there’s only one rainbow trout. Loneliness and isolation are cleverly diluted with love and hope in BAFTA winner Sleeping With The...
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That Long & Lonesome Road to Grandma’s
Welcome to the open road – a place of ‘adventure, discovery and holding in your pee’. In Felipe Di Poi Tamargo’s brilliantly inventive Rhode Island School of Design grad film That Long & Lonesome...
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Pregnant Pause
Inspired to create a comedy centred around the stereotypes surrounding women’s feelings towards pregnancy and motherhood, Alice Seabright’s 12-minute short Pregnant Pause invites its audience to spend...
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