Tag: Private

The nature of trauma is vicious. It traps you in the past, in specific boxes of the past. You can ...

All Of Our Shadows does something rare and moving: it allows a boy to be frightened and it allows him to ...

The first view we have of Jesse, the titular character of Josef Steiff’s Jesse James, he is lying on the grass in ...

A horror film in more ways than one, Christopher Hewitt’s 17-minute Out At Night borrows its central idea from A Quiet Place (2018): a ...

A bouncy rom-com, Read Between The Lines is funny, textured with inside jokes, and an overall efficient entertainer. Written and directed by ...

Elahe Esmaili’s 33-minute documentary, The Doll, on the deliberations and uncertainty over the marriage of a 14-year old Iranian girl is ...

The clash between ambition—however radical or modest—and the ties of duty is a conflict with extensive history. The options are ...

Dante Aubain’s Polaroid takes Patrick Bateman, and everything he represents, perhaps even more than that, and makes it anew, this time allowing ...

Andreas Ortner’s fourth wall breaking pandemic short, Richtungswechsel or Change of Course, is a 9-minute film set in the picturesque village of Stall, Austria, ...

Duncan B. Putney’s 5-minute short, Macy’s Goes To War, dressed as an archival newsreel, is a satire set in 1942 about ...