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 ...
Tag: Short Film Reviews
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 ...
Backwards: A Wholesome Comedy and its Psychoanalytic Base
Sarah Klearman’s Backwards is an eccentric comedy with just a dash of romance, the narrative moving forward with the latter ...
Interstate: Time Floating Out of Joint on the Edge of Nowhere
Samuel McIntosh’s Interstate is a case of creative use of constraints. Made on a low budget, the visual style of ...
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Nejib Kthiri’s Trinou explores the inner life of a withdrawn, wheelchair-bound teenager in the Tunisian countryside, limited first by his ...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 ...
Chipper: A Chipper Protagonist Chips Away at Rotten Men
The protagonist of Chipper, Caroline,is Elle Woods meets Margot Robbie’s Barbie. Directed by MK Kopp, it is a proof-of-concept horror-comedy ...
Lambing: Parents, and the Baby They Must Choose
When going into Katie McNeice’s Lambing one does not (but perhaps should) expect to be momentarily devastated by the fate ...
