POV: Slasher Flick with A Bit of Everything
Brian K. Rosenthal’s POV, seventeen minutes long, is a pastiche of slasher flicks, its indulgence in tropes the evidence of ...
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The Coronating: Stunning Imagery and Excellent Performances in Fantasy Driven by Crisis of Faith
Justin Solaiman and Hudson King’s The Coronating is a gorgeously visualised 22-minute fantasy drama examining the conflict of a knight ...
Monét: Impermeable Friendships and Their Fatal Interruptions
Grief and death intermingle into a bitter mix in Kyung Sok Kim’s Monét, a 22-minute film about two best friends, ...
Flight into Darkness: Declarations of and Assertions Against Insanity
Alexander Ratter’s Flight into Darkness, a loose adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s book of the same name, retains the sibling relationship ...
Polaris: Young Love and Its Happy, Messy, Fleeting Glories
Eleni Doucas’ 17-minute young-adult romance, Polaris follows Lucy and Aidan, young residents at a mental health facility, who develop a ...
ID EST: (Sci-fi) Action for Its Own Sake
Shayda Frost’s ID EST, a 12-minute sci-fi, is weak on the writing but boasts the aesthetic of a high-budget slick, ...
Broken Castles: Implied Historical Trauma and Fresh Efforts to Outrun Them
Ginevra Gentili’s Broken Castles, written by Ryan Napier, follows the tug of war between two brothers and the opposing perspectives ...
Canta Santiago: Grief, Amid the Demands of Showbiz and Wages
James Valdez’s Canta Santiago is set in a restaurant and features a protagonist with a recently passed brother, so thoughts of The ...
That Night: An Expectant House and Its Chilling Emptiness
Joseph McDonagh’s 13-minute That Night is a horror film that thrives on dread. Its preoccupation with dread itself frees it ...
Dipsomaniac: Bad Birthdays and a Bloody Becoming
Jeremy Stewart’s Dipsomaniac is a 17-minute dramedy following its protagonist’s lonely 27th birthday. His sole companion, Hal—unhinged from the word ...
