By David Pountain As his body of work will attest, Portuguese director José Pedro Lopes has a clear penchant for the macabre, often presenting grimly comic scenarios which see the crueller and more reckless sides […]
SHORT FILMS
By Pirjo Leek Alrik Bursell’s short sci-fi film Strange Thing is a story of how a lazy breakfast at home turns into a spine-tingling rollercoaster ride. Mixing the familiar and domestic with the strange and unexpected, […]
By Stephanie Hotz The Häns team, consisting of Enric Ribes and Oriol Martínez, describe themselves as “odd storytellers”, and Xiong Di and Daydreaming, two of their recent documentary pieces, are both shorts that recount the lives of people […]
By Lauren Hurrell Quiz is an independent American horror short film directed by A.D. Schmidt. The unsettling storyline tracks our apprehensive main character, played by David Kilgo, who receives a peculiar automated text message just […]
By Sharon Calingasan Animated short Please, Call Back Later is a charming piece of work by animator, illustrator and filmmaker Yulia Ruditskaya that follows a girl who escapes from her usual routines and goes on […]
By David Pountain Set in an alternate reality where openly straight people are the target of stigma, Tyler Glodt’s short cheekily flips the script on heteronormativity with humorous and often surprisingly touching results. Following the […]