Mayfly: Damming Charisma to Look at the Wreck Behind
Keith Andreen’s Mayfly lays bare the fallibility of glorious figures while graphing the ravaging work of grief. Twenty-seven minutes long, ...
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Ghoul: Living in Sweetened Horror for A Mother-Son Duo
Magnus Lyche’s 16-minute domestic violence drama Ghoul showcases the experience from the perspective of the child in the household. His ...
Favorites: A List of Lost Favorites
Lauren Hoover-directed Favorites is an introspective drama where the past mingles with the present in a depiction of life as ...
Are You Awake?: Kinship in Dread and Paralysis in the Unnatural Everyday
Gabriel Caste’s Are You Awake? is an astute psychological drama that depicts routine dread with precision. Compressing time and history ...
Between the Lines: A COVID-Era Musical-Comedy that Gets it Just Right
Dom Lee’s Between the Lines is a 15-minute musical comedy that bears the markers of the COVID era, in that ...
Vanilla: Method Acting, Roleplaying, and How the Two Don’t Mix
Chase Pearson’s Vanilla, built as a classic sex comedy, uses its many twists and turns to deliver laughs that come ...
The Sikh Soldier: War Heroes and Colonial Victims
Joseph Archer and Sky Cheema’s 15-minute war drama The Sikh Soldier views the bleakness of heroism in the colonial context ...
What We Did Yesterday: Replacing Vacuous Broad Strokes with Intricate Groundwork
Matt René’s What We Did Yesterday splits the narrative into three parts, each led by one of its three characters. ...
Trinou: A Quest for Life’s Vibrancy
Nejib Kthiri’s Trinou explores the inner life of a withdrawn, wheelchair-bound teenager in the Tunisian countryside, limited first by his ...
Dictionary: Graphing Love in Seven Stages
Elena Viklova’s Dictionary is a brief, diagrammatic account of a relationship viewed as a progression through the seven stages of ...
