Whiteout from writer/director Lance Edmands is a tense, well-crafted single-take short. The gimmick here, as a cinematic device, is that everything takes place from the perspective of the backseat of a car. Taking place on a dark rural road in the… Continue Reading
David Brundige’s short Haircut is a well-written fight verbal sequence, but in a way it is depicted with the same attention to rhythm and space that any good action flick would. In the film a modern couple devolves into increasingly vicious recrimination when, to her… Continue Reading
Trouble Every Day is a 2001 French erotic horror film directed by Claire Denis and written by Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau. It stars Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle and Alex Descas. Two strangers share a strange and terrible bond in this stylish horror tale that juggles sex and graphic bloodshed.… Continue Reading
K.I.T. is a short written and directed by Michelle Morgan about a well intentioned yuppie who goes to great lengths to prove she’s a good person. What results is a funny comedy of manners between mis-matched women, as Michelle (Michelle Morgan)… Continue Reading
Nino Mancuso’s dark short film comedy uses an absurd premise to explore jealousy, fear, self-destruction, and, of course, paranoia inside relationships.Things start normal enough: Suzie (Angela Trimbur) and Sean head to the movies to watch a film featuring Gyllenhaal. But,… Continue Reading
A man alone at night in a booth with a light flickering on an empty parking lot, save for a single deserted car. To kill time the man picks up an iPad from the Lost & Found box and discovers… Continue Reading
Yes, God, Yes is a short film directed by Karen Maine and starring Stranger Things’ Natalia Dyer as a 15-year old good Catholic girl who thanks to a racy AOL chat, discovers the act of self-pleasure and all the confusion and emotional… Continue Reading
A young married couple brings two of their single friends out to Palm Springs for a long weekend. It does not go as planned. Winner of a Jury Award (for Best Narrative Short) at SXSW in 2015, Michael Mohan’s Pink Grapefruit sees… Continue Reading
Joanna Arnow’s fascination with the power balance in relationships continues with her acclaimed narrative short film, “Bad at Dancing,” which won the Silver Bear at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. Eleanore Pienta beguiles as Isabel, a young woman whose… Continue Reading
ПЕРЕХОД (The crossing in the english version) is a Russian horror short film directed by Arseny Syuhin. Inspired by the early films of John Carpenter and a particularly unnerving underpass the director walked through on his way to work, The Crossing has… Continue Reading
Elvis Depressedly’s music has a genuine feel to it; the emotion in the lyrics, the arrangement of each note, and the composition of each song all make their sound feel anything but contrived. The most defining characteristic of each of… Continue Reading
Raising Arizona is a 1987 American crime comedy film directed, written, and produced by the Coen brothers, in which a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another family’s quintuplets and their lives become more complicated than they… Continue Reading
10,000 km is a Spanish-American romantic drama film directed by Carlos Marques-Marcet. It follows the relationship between Alexandra and Sergi in Barcelona, Spain. They struggle to find a balance between their plans of having a baby and Alex’s photography career. When Alex accepts a one-year… Continue Reading
One Man’s Loss is about a man whose down and out, living rough, with no signs of things getting any better. But as if by chance his life is dramatically altered when he treads on a piece of glass outside… Continue Reading