Joe Jennings Jr.’s Change has a neat plot to its advantage. Set in a laundromat, the film records a fleeting moment of doubt, reassurance and then crashing change. Sixteen-year-old Kendra (Jamila Gray) unironically asked a politician what it takes to be the president. President of what, her mother asked when she recounted the story. Of… Continue reading Change: Mundanity Changes To Tragedy In No Time
Tag: Short Film Reviews
Meltozoid-The Remake: A Merrily Gallant Fantasy/Parody For Filmmakers And Cinephiles
Writer-Director Zach Zeman’s Meltozoid-The Remake is a film about a film remake, set in a distant past that speaks of a very successful director of B-horror movies who, like Hitchcock, made a particularly famous film, which now faces the threat of being remade. This director (William Lewis played by Carlo Fiorletta) literally comes back from… Continue reading Meltozoid-The Remake: A Merrily Gallant Fantasy/Parody For Filmmakers And Cinephiles
Glitches: A Conversational Gem
Annie Chen’s Glitches is a story of two strangers who meet at an airport. It is not a love story but instead the film follows the conversation of these two strangers and how quickly they find the trust while confessing to their deepest fears and untold stories. The direction by Annie Chen leads you through… Continue reading Glitches: A Conversational Gem
On Air: Masterful Telling Of A Man’s Buried Past
Secrets, mortifying tales, private moments – all of which you’d want securely buried. But, imagine them spilling out. And, now imagine them spilling out in the open, in public. Embarrassing, isn’t it? Dreadful, wouldn’t you agree? Bastiaan Rook’s On Air hits on all these bone-chilling notes to tell the scandalizing story of Brian. Who doesn’t… Continue reading On Air: Masterful Telling Of A Man’s Buried Past
A Family Business: The Business Of Settling Scores Old And New
Richard Harrington’s A Family Business tells a tale of more than just a father and son reconciliation, cocooned in a plot of sour relationships and cold revenge. Set-up in a cozy little coffee shop, three different storylines run parallelly, only to come together later in a shrewdly laid plan. A son (Sean Ormond) meets the father… Continue reading A Family Business: The Business Of Settling Scores Old And New
Mr. Ticklez: Tickling You All The Way To A Merry Hell
It’s Halloween. A mother and her little daughter have fallen asleep in front of the TV. On waking, when she tries to switch off the TV, it starts up on its own, over and over. In Lee and Sam Boxleitner’s Mr Ticklez, there is a new clown in town and he relies on the TV… Continue reading Mr. Ticklez: Tickling You All The Way To A Merry Hell
#BBD: Today’s America, Today’s Racism And An Uncomfortable Look At The Human Psyche
Robert Hagan’s short drama #BBD takes the bull by the horns with its narrative essay form, with racism at its core, and Gene, a black man in today’s America, as its face. As Gene, played by Jeremy Burnett, clarifies, there is more than one kind of racism, more subtle forms of it than blackface, cop… Continue reading #BBD: Today’s America, Today’s Racism And An Uncomfortable Look At The Human Psyche
Sleepy: The Tyranny Of Exhaustion
Anton Chekhov’s short story about a sleep-deprived little girl is adapted to the screen with a few minor changes into an 8-minute film that boasts a striking visual style and yet is bogged down by failings in its cinematography. Director Elizabeth Rakhilkina modernizes the story of Varka in her adaptation of Sleepy. Here, Varka is… Continue reading Sleepy: The Tyranny Of Exhaustion
The Right Choice: A Satire Of Corporates, Race, Sex And Sexuality
The undoing of convictions is a curious thing: when done right, it becomes a blend of spectacularly comical and terrifyingly chaotic, taking on the form of your most uncomfortable fears and rejoicing in it. Tomisin Adepeju’s The Right Choice offers this blend on a smaller scale (in terms of grandeur), doing many things perfectly and… Continue reading The Right Choice: A Satire Of Corporates, Race, Sex And Sexuality
Through The Looking Glass: A Very Promising Meet Cute
The director’s note says that it’s based on an actual window and an actual charade. What a disappointment it would have been, had it not been so! Writer-Director Indigo Bates’s Through The Looking Glass is a 2:37 minutes short film on a very novel, original meet-cute. It’s the music that one’s first drawn to, even… Continue reading Through The Looking Glass: A Very Promising Meet Cute