Gutted: A Performance of Masculinity and the Price of it
Jacob Isaiah Kelly’s Gutted examines what it means to be a good man, a good boyfriend and an ideal supporter ...
Tag: Drama Short Film Review
The Other Woman: Questions of Morality Around Lust, and Questioning Domesticity
Cameron Lee Horace’s The Other Woman chronicles the life of a septuagenarian woman in a nursing home in 2004, her ...
The Pearl: Greed, Necessity, and Disasters Before and After
Terji Mohr’s The Pearl is a Faroese film that swiftly unfolds the effects of greed clashing with poverty, with the ...
Through the Stars: Leaving Homes that are Not
Ariel Danziger’s sci-fi Through the Stars, written by Ryan Marth, is a teenager’s act of self-preservation in the face of ...
Hypodermic: The Literal and Metaphorical United Under the Skin
Aaron Van Maanen’s Hypodermic takes grief down to a physical level. A character who literally carries it within his body ...
Balloon: Conventions of Violence and Their By-Products
Through the superhero myth, Jeremy Merrifield’s Balloon, co-written with Dave Testa, explores the destructive forces that come into being in ...
What we say, What we mean: Meanings, Perspectives, and Interpretations
Abigail Parmenter’s What we say, What we mean plays with reality to present alternative realities of a couple who are ...
Finale: An Answer to Languishing in a Pandemic
Anthony Vander’s Finale is a bid to portray COVID-19, not as stats and facts, but as the suspended limbo of ...
Paintless: The Second Coming and a Young Artist’s Doom
Konstantin Pivovar’s 23-minute Paintless explores the world of Christians after the Second Coming. For one artist, it is a bleak ...
New Shoes: Childhood Abuse and Unconditional Love
Thommy Kane’s New Shoes sees the bleak world that a young boy occupies, with his mother at the centre of ...
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