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Fairytales are made of these. A storyline that touches upon the ups and downs of ordinary life, under extraordinary circumstances. Music that catapults one into the fantasy of a life far beyond the regular rigmarole. And a narrator who walks one through the story’s various unpredictable turns. Director David Lawson’s A Clockwork Heart attempts to… Continue reading A Clockwork Heart: A Classic Example Of Disney’s Precursors

8:44-minutes of reel on a family’s moment with love, life and memories: that’s what writer-director Javier Aparisi’s The Missing Picture is all about. A film that deals with the central character’s suffering because of Alzheimer’s, Aparisi’s short presents a sublime, touching portrait of a family that has to live with someone whose death is more… Continue reading The Missing Picture: A Poetic Love Note To Alzheimer’s

Contrary to the headline, Under The Flag, isn’t just a tale of a dance performance or its lead. It’s certainly centred on it, but not restricted to it. The film is so much more and beyond the dais that holds the aforementioned performance that it takes nuanced observation to fully savour this piece of skilled… Continue reading Under The Flag: An Exemplary Short On A Danseuse & Her Performance

Faulty Roots, an 11-minute feel-good drama about Lola, a teenager with clinical depression, whose life is changed just that much for the better because of a rekindled friendship, hits all the conventional beats of its subgenre but manages to get its central character just right.  Directed and starring Ella Greenwood as Lola, the film is… Continue reading Faulty Roots: Teens, Friendships and Morbidities 

A sci-fi, Everything I Learned Came From The Television (EILCFTT) ensures its metaphorical nature is not lost on the audience. Jeremy Stewart’s 15-minute film focuses heavily on building on the idea of TVs and, by extension, media consumption being corruptive influences that can gain mastery over your intellectual autonomy.  Perhaps because of this, the film’s… Continue reading Everything I Learned Came From The Television: Harnessing The Potential Of Sci-Fi For A Simple Message

Tsunami Falls emphasizes the tragedy of its story by utilising the dichotomy between personal regret and a natural disaster. Indeed, flashbacks of a life dotted with unhappiness while a calamitous wave takes shape in the background is the recipe of panic-inducing, breathtaking spectacle.  And while the production values of Tsunami Falls are practically flawless, the… Continue reading Tsunami Falls: Acceptance In The Face Of Inevitability

La Petite Folie. Roughly translating to a little madness, Massimo Zannoni’s 12-minute period drama demonstrates a facet of resistance in the face of oppressive forces.  It is 1943 and the Nazis are occupying Paris. For a mismatched band of comrades, resistance means celebrating the very lives that the Nazis have condemned. An alluring woman, Sandrine… Continue reading La Petite Folie: Celebration As Defiance

At its best, Kyran Davies’ Dig Ophelia Dig surprises its viewers with what feels like effortless originality, but if anything, Davies proves originality is anything but effortless to reproduce for the entertainment of others.  Dig Ophelia Dig starts strong. An old woman, sitting by an old grave, admits to a priest that the grave is… Continue reading Dig Ophelia Dig: Righting Past Wrongs, Not Quite Legally

For Steve Young’s mobster drama Hell’s Kitchen, it becomes a point of crucial importance that it consists of a cast of four. Centred on the question of who has turned double-crosser, the film is a direct derivative of its genre, and over twelve minutes, it evolves from a more theatrical tone to tense drama.  The… Continue reading Hell’s Kitchen: Crime Drama, Fun Sized