#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

Are You Wild Like Me?: An Ode To Umberto Lenzi’s Cinema

Writer-Director-Editor Billy Nawrocki’s Are You Wild Like Me? is a 10:08 minutes long film on cannibalism. Not so much of a horror as it’s touted to be, the film is a grotesque visual narration of flesh-eating entities. When Laura Peterson and Derek Roberts who play the parents lose their child, an 8-month old Brianna Lenzi,… Continue reading Are You Wild Like Me?: An Ode To Umberto Lenzi’s Cinema

Ainsley: An Examination Of Why We Fall

Matt Gorrell serves as writer, director, cinematographer, and editor for Ainsley, but none of these aspects of the film are done well enough to make for a likeable story. On every front, the film suffers from a lack of skill, resulting in a completely amateurish substance and form.  Gorrell builds the story around the eponymous… Continue reading Ainsley: An Examination Of Why We Fall

Dusters: Revisiting Western Films

Filmed in Australia, Dusters is a 28:30 minutes long film that pays homage to Western films. Director Noel Vinson’s take on it seamlessly blends the classic genre with contemporary cinematic styles of horror and suspense to give a slow, neatly paced film that surprises the audience as much as its characters. The film opens to… Continue reading Dusters: Revisiting Western Films

Wives Of The Skies: Peering Through The Lens That Objectifies Women

Discomfort – if one word could describe the effect and emotions Wives Of The Skies evoke in the viewer, it would be that – abject discomfort. Peering through the lens of cinematographer Davey Robertson, we see the two stewardesses, bold and vulnerable. Rachel Alig and Maddison Bullock play Fran and Marcy respectively, the two women… Continue reading Wives Of The Skies: Peering Through The Lens That Objectifies Women

As One: Inspiring You To Find Your Coping Mechanism

Writer Tawny Sorensen’s As One is a 14:39 minutes long film on loss, grief and the journey between the two – covered one step at a time. Sorensen who also plays one of the leads in the film picks on the cancer-genre, a sub-category that we have been well-exposed to, but what she does with… Continue reading As One: Inspiring You To Find Your Coping Mechanism

Cagnolino: Examining Violence Through The Reluctant Villains

Hugo Diego Garcia’s French-Italian short Cagnolino (meaning little dog) is as epic as Tony was, his first venture as screenwriter. Garcia retains themes, actors and style from Tony. There is again that delicious mix of music, bliss and fast-approaching trouble.  At the centre of this tale is Dario, played by Garcia, and Dali (Pietro Mercieca).… Continue reading Cagnolino: Examining Violence Through The Reluctant Villains

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