Sherbet: Rage and Tenderness Near the Finishing Line
Danny Gibbons’s Sherbet is a 26-minute journey through connections made in pits of despair, and the irreversible changes they leave ...
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Uroboros: Warped Time and Other Horrors of Oppression
Diarmuid Donohoe’s Uroboros is a depiction of historical, gendered trauma in 20th century Ireland. The film sets out to portray ...
The Housewife: Best (Biased) Laid Plans and How They Go Awry
Jeremiah Kipp’s thriller The Housewife turns the tables on assumptions about the women who stay at home. Following the abduction ...
Skin: The Profundity of Transitioning, Distilled
The logline to Leo Behrens’s Skin describes it as a poetic self-exploration of identity. It does not mention the utter ...
Love, Dad: Tracing the Disintegration of a Family and the Leaving of a Father
Diana Cam Van Nguyen’s 12-minute documentary Love, Dad is an attempt to reconcile the past with the present by an ...
Second Stage: A Glimpse into a Day Transiting Through Grief
Keelay Moore James’s autobiographical Second Stage follows a woman through a day of grappling with grief as she goes through ...
Fool’s Game: Marriage and Its Many Excesses
Laurence Roberts’s Fool’s Game takes what is already a generally stressful affair (hosting a dinner with old peers) and cranks ...
One-Minute Time Machine: Romance and Science Equal Excellent Comedy
Devon Avery’s famed One-Minute Time Machine, written by Sean Crouch, is certainly entertaining, carrying that specific 2010s charm and sense ...
Maladjustment: The Horrors in Lived Experience
Anatasha Blakely’s Maladjustment is a horror harnessing the unique experience of the pandemic lockdowns of a past that is yet ...
The Cook: Basking in the Joy of Transferable Skills and Finding Your Calling
Vincent Bossel’s 3-minute micro-short The Cook is an excellent piece of work that harnesses the absorbing power of watching professional ...
