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I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!
You may not have heard the name Reid Fleming. But, for comic book connoisseurs, it’s an iconic moniker. Created by writer and artist David Boswell in 1977, Reid is the “world’s toughest milkman”—a...
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My Dad
Winner of the ‘Graduation Cristal’ award at Annecy 2015 and ‘Best British Film’ at LIAF 2014, the BAFTA-nominated My Dad arrives on Short of the Week with an impressive pedigree. Created as his...
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Rosa - These Storms
Now more than ever, the suppression of females in certain societies has come to the forefront of our culture. Living On One’s Rosa – These Storms joins that conversation with a powerfully raw...
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97%
The Dutch entry into the Live Action Short Film category at the 2014 Academy Awards, Ben Brand’s 97% is a captivating look at finding love in a digital age. Following hot on the heels of Samuel...
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Interview with Einar Baldvin (The Pride of Strathmoor)
With its distinct narrative and intriguing aesthetic, Einar Baldvin’s animated short The Pride of Strathmoor is a film that demands discussion. A resounding success on the festival circuit, in...
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The Pride of Strathmoor
Winner of the ‘Jury Prize for Best Animated Short’ at Slamdance 2015, Einar Baldvin’s USC thesis project The Pride of Strathmoor combines unique storytelling with an imposing style, to create an...
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Conventional
In Hollywood, nothing is more terrifying that obscurity. It’s a brutal system—one that will venerate, destroy, and discard in equal measure. Conventional, a short written, directed, and starring Karen...
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The Thing in the Apartment
Great horror films prey upon relatable fears: that noise you heard in the middle of the night…a feeling of being watched…the thing you just saw in the shadows. Filmmaker John William Ross’s directly...
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Escargore
The story of 5 friends being inventively murdered one-by-one might not sound like the most original pick for our Halloween week, but then most Horror films don’t feature snails. An entertaining mix of...
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This is how it starts
With a synopsis that reads as if it would be equally at home on the wall of an art gallery, Shahaf Ram’s experimental short This is how it starts is a film designed to toy with the boundaries of...
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Hitori
The puppetry category here on Short of the Week isn’t exactly one bursting at the seams with content, so when a film featuring the “most-traditional” aesthetic we’ve seen from a film of this medium...
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Ray's Big Idea
From features to commercials, the name Aardman is one that has become synonymous with a certain brand of exuberant and entertaining production in the world animation. The release of a new short from...
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Dope City
A great film utilizes its setting to help develop story and mood. Dope City, a film written and directed by Robbie Barclay, is a fantastic representative example. This is a short where the narrative’s...
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Standing8
Written and directed with confident attitude by Columbia MFA student Michael Molina Minard, Standing8 tackles the glamorous, seedy, dangerous world of boxing, celebrating the sport and characters...
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A Million Miles Away
A cat face sweatshirt seems to come to life, its eyes glowing green. A 15-year-old girl quotes Eleanor Roosevelt to an impassive E.T. figurine. A group of teenagers performs a rousing choral rendition...
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Migration
The aesthetic of a 70’s nature documentary and the heart of a long lost Super 8mm film, Fluorescent Hill’s Migration will make you feel like you’ve stumbled upon a vulnerable visual diary of a...
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Speed Dating
We’ve all been there, right? The first date from hell. But what if you’re facing not one but a dozen undesirable suitors? With touches of the absurdism, charm and quirky detail of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s...
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The 414s: The Original Teenage Hackers
A child of the 90s, I’m an unabashed fan of the 1995 film Hackers, a delightfully campy, “hip” idealization of hacker culture. Hack the planet, bitches! But, a decade earlier—when computers were still...
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Copycat
Halloween might be over, but horror takes a new form in Charlie Lyne’s cleverly constructed insight into the world of filmmaking Copycat. Created entirely from excerpts of Horror films, at just...
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Above All Else
We’ve featured a lot of inspirational sports documentaries here on Short of the Week. And, really, it’s easy to see why—when it comes to short form viewing, sometimes a life-affirming, inspiring 7...
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