Many years ago at the Cannes Film Festival I was discussing the story of my next film with a producer. “So, feature?”, he asked. “No, short”, I responded. “Why? Shorts are a waste of time, you can’t make money with them”. “But, that’s the length of the story” was all I could counter with, and […]
This week I wanted to share short films that are currently available to stream on the Short Shorts Online Theater. You do have to register in order to stream the short films but I highly recommend you to do so to watch some of the best short films for free. Here are five short films […]
We last brought you a curated list of short films back in November so I thought it was about time to take a look at some more. Of these five, four were released this year, and one is from 1977, so they should be an interesting look at how storytelling and formal tropes compare now […]
The irony of the internet liberating short films from living and dying at festivals, and making them accessible to viewers anywhere at any time, is that quality content has resultantly become harder to find. Three hundred hours of content are said to be uploaded to YouTube every minute, meaning a simple search for the term […]
I recently watched approximately 1000 short films in the space of two months while working at a film festival, an experience I will write a proper blogpost about another time. As a result, I feel well-placed to assemble a list of some of my favourite weird, wonderful, and wild shorts from the past few years […]
For a long time short films played before features in the cinema, and they were often career stepping stones for new filmmakers. But as the cinemas became more and more concerned with finance, and fitting in as many showings of the latest blockbuster as possible, shorts were squeezed out and became seen mainly on the […]