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Up North
It’s hard to say why I enjoyed Stefanie Abel Horowitz’s Up North so much. I’ll admit, it’s not a flashy film. Nor, is it comprised of any big, sweeping dramatic moments. But, there’s just something so...
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Dames
Looking to take it’s audience on a “weird car ride”, Matthew Goodhue’s short film/music video (for the song Dames by American Tomahawk) hybrid Dames is an unusual blend of comedy and horror,...
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Muscle
They say “Til’ death do us part”, but sometimes a relationship feels less like a perfect union and more like a pair of shackles. Heidi Marshall’s Muscle explores the ambivalence of a wife who is...
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Dissonance
Performing a dramatic dance between fantasy and reality, Till Nowak’s festival favourite Dissonance is a dizzying mix of live-action and animation that takes you on a journey through the mind of a...
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Your Mother and I
A very accomplished father (at least in his retelling) holds court in the kitchen, recounting amazing feats of social good as his daughter reluctantly listens on. There is a theatric “big fish”...
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The Polaroid Job
Holiday season is here, time to dust off the old photo albums and dive into nostalgia. Now you might know Mike Plante, Senior Programmer at the Sundance Film Festival, as the Santa delivering you the...
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Born in a Void
The third film we’ve featured from the Late Night Work Club collective’s Strangers anthology (after Nicolas Ménard’s Wednesday with Goddard & Sean Buckelew’s Lovestreams), Alex Grigg’s Born in a...
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Happiness
It’s hard to consistently make work independently as an animator, and the rare creators who are able to ascend to this peak outside the byzantine realm of grants and government sponsorship are...
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Cradle
My best friend lost both his legs in 2010 while serving as a U.S. Marine combat engineer in Afghanistan. So, suffice it to say, director Devon Manney’s short film, Cradle, wrecked me. With his...
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The Monolith
Full disclosure: I’m tired of artist profile docs. That might seem unfair, but considering how many shorts I watch, you’d be surprised how many are about a painter…or a sculptor…or a custom guitar...
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The Ningyo
Period films are hard, and we imagine that period pieces with multiple, awe-inspiring sets are even harder. In The Ningyo, we are transported from museums to mansions, underground lairs to under the...
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Hardware
Word of warning: Hardware, the 2017 Sundance selection from writer/director Stephen Jacobson, is weird…really weird. But, if you follow Sundance’s short selections with even casual interest, that...
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Semele
As someone still adjusting to the ever-changing landscape of fatherhood, there’s no denying that stories centred around parent/child relationships are the ones most likely to resonate with me at the...
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Best Films of the Month: November
November has been a strong month here on Short of the Week. Trying to narrow down a list of our three favourite films from the 33 we featured over the 30-days of the month has proved a difficult task...
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Filmmaker Update: Nov 2017
A bevy of deals, awards, and new releases were announced in November for filmmakers in our network of alums. Here’s a roundup! Remember, if you’ve been featured on Short of the Week in the past and...
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Timber
Picture the scene…An apocalyptic world full of death and destruction, a ragtag bunch of survivors need to band together and find a way to last the freezing night. But what if those survivors weren’t...
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Cosmic Bowling
Nostalgia is a funny thing. When we look back, we tend to forget all the bad, and remember only the good. Cosmic Bowling from co-directors Emily Berge and Spencer Thielmann isn’t a nostalgic film in...
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10 Films Advance in Race for Oscar Animated Short
From a 65+ list of qualified films, the Academy has narrowed the Animated Short Subject category to 10 contenders today. It’s a list that is very kind to films that have been released online, as 4 of...
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Backstory
For such a serious and moving film, it’s funny that Backstory’s title is a pun. The piece, a gorgeously shot, fast-paced tour through the life of its protagonist from birth to death, is his...
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I'm in Here
One of my mother’s worst nightmares is to have people break into her house in her absence, erase all traces of trespassing, and just squat—she has a pretty vivid imagination. In Willy Berliner’s I’m...
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