Anant Mehra does it again. He picks a sensitive topic, neatly unfolds it for his audience and lets the story transverse through time, places and emotions. Set along an unknown shore, the rocks and the ebbing waves become the tempo for the film. Simran Jehani and Evan Brown who are cast as the lead pair… Continue reading Waves: A Monochromatic Depiction Of A Very Grey Subject
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Snowflakes: Living and Resilience in Little Ones
Sabrina Stoll’s Snowflakes is an animated 6-minute drama about finding a spark of magic in bleak circumstances. Charly, its tiny protagonist, discovers that there is joy to be found even within the confines of four walls when a little girl walks into her room at the children’s hospital. Written by Tiziana Giammarino & Sabrina Stoll,… Continue reading Snowflakes: Living and Resilience in Little Ones
Providence: Infinity and the Limits Placed on It
Anant Mehra’s Providence is a 13-minute horror about vows that last and succeed lifetimes. Powers that are also curses are passed on from generation to generation of young women by other, older mysterious women. Saba is the latest in the line of young women blessed with infinite being in exchange for unquestioning obedience. The opening… Continue reading Providence: Infinity and the Limits Placed on It
Critically Acclaimed: Being an Actor and Performing Celebrityhood
Thomas Loone’s Critically Acclaimed is a film about being in films. Particularly, it is about new actors, independent cinema, and brand new success. As its protagonist negotiates between a modest, everyday life with the sudden invasion of bright lights, lots of smiling, and absolutely no fumbling. The film tries to think about what success in… Continue reading Critically Acclaimed: Being an Actor and Performing Celebrityhood
La Leyenda del Sombrerón: Dream and Reality Merge into an Exitless Maze
Enrique A. Mendoza’s La Leyenda del Sombrerón is a 9-minute horror that has its own take on the Guatemalan legend. Taking its protagonist, the orphaned child Suzana, through a disorienting maze where nothing familiar provides comfort any longer, the story teeters between safety and danger. El Sombrerón (played in the film by Fernando Martínez) is a… Continue reading La Leyenda del Sombrerón: Dream and Reality Merge into an Exitless Maze
Chekhov’s: A Work Of Art: Refinement, and All the Measures to Preserve its Illusion
Nick Burton’s Chekhov’s: A Work of Art is a 14-minute adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s short story of the same name. A satire with its eye on the hypocrisy of the refined and well-off, it haunts its characters with a sculpture that equally sparks fascination and aversion. As in the story, the film does not bestow… Continue reading Chekhov’s: A Work Of Art: Refinement, and All the Measures to Preserve its Illusion
A Feast That Never Comes: Intertwining Lives and the Accompanying Grief
Maria Juranic’s A Feast That Never Comes is a 16-minute experimental dance film exploring four characters’ interiority, and relationships with each other, their circumstances and with themselves. Divided into four distinct sections, the characters’ lives intertwine in spirals of alienation and disaffection stemming from desire, loneliness and betrayal. Kate (Nico Li) appears alone in the… Continue reading A Feast That Never Comes: Intertwining Lives and the Accompanying Grief
Bubble: The Real and Theatrical Drama of Plastic
Bo Zhang’s Bubble is the product of a happy confluence with theatre. The story of a woman choking on a plastic-riddled life, the film is strongly grounded in theatrical methods and therefore uses mood and emotion to drive its narrative. There are no dialogues in the film. In fact, there is no other character besides… Continue reading Bubble: The Real and Theatrical Drama of Plastic
Silver & Gold: Five Episodes of Capers with Colleagues in Crime
Alonge Hawes’ Silver & Gold, a five-episode heist series, follows four thieves in their various crimes and capers while developing bonds that supersede their jobs and natures. The first episode of this ambitious crime thriller series,titled The Birth Of The Cool is a 16-minute introduction to the main players involved: two teams who join up… Continue reading Silver & Gold: Five Episodes of Capers with Colleagues in Crime
Joined by Fate: The Meeting of Intersecting Paths
Christina S. Sledge’s Joined by Fate is a 39-minute documentary narrating the story of her romance and marriage to her spouse. Employing a talking heads style, the subjects trace their journey from childhood to marriage, dotted with a series of coincidences that look like fate in retrospect. The narrative alternates between Edward and Christina, the… Continue reading Joined by Fate: The Meeting of Intersecting Paths