Tag: Short Film Reviews

Look! asks you not just to look closely, but to look where there may not be much to look at. Look! asks you to see. Writer-director Adam Trad’s 5:55-minute short watches Evan (Jonathan Reason) ponder on his life, sitting on a park bench in Sightly Park (appropriately named for more than one reason). It is… Continue reading Look!: The Loneliness Of Combating Loneliness With Self-Reliance

Town Hall. Casey Lock styles this story of townspeople affected by corporate greed like a courtroom drama. In a small town, the city councillor is retiring. A kindly man with a booming voice, Carl (Steve Herson) is being replaced by his colleague, Olivia (Robyn Coffin), a woman on the Vinci company’s trail with the certainty… Continue reading Town Hall: Going The Unorthodox Extra Mile For The Greater Good

Violence in cinema means little in and of itself. Each significant act of violence on screen is built up with meaningful plot and characters so that when blood finally runs, it has the emotional impact that lasts for at least a while. Without that backing, it can feel feeble – or worse still, evoke no… Continue reading Vengeance Runs Red: Classic Tale of Exacting Revenge

Based on John Milton’s epic Paradise, Jeremiah Kipp’s Lost + Found is a film noir moulded in the likeness of Baz Luhrman’s Romeo+Juliet, following, of course, Satan’s plan to corrupt God’s world where Adam (Carl Hendrick Louis) and Eve (Pia Haddad) live without sin.  Besides the obvious similarity in titles, the film also borrows Romeo+Juliet’s… Continue reading A Goth Retelling Of Milton’s Epic With Lost + Found

Making a name for oneself in any kind of profession is an uphill battle; doing the same at a very young age is even more difficult. But Los Angeles based rock band named Love Ghost makes it look easy with their unique brand of music that seems to have struck a chord with the public.… Continue reading Love Ghost: The Journey Through Ireland

Taher Bowman might just remind you of Miles Morales. He is a regular kid with a cop father, with more interest in art than academics who finds out in a life or death situation that he has superpowers. Adante Watts’ Catch introduces us to Taher, played by Zephaniah Terry, in this 22-minute story, with the… Continue reading Catch: A New Superhero Series In The Making

India is a country with one of the richest ancient cultures. Lots of festivals, customs and traditions have been passed on from one generation to the next. Some of these had a lot of relevance and practicality. Today though, is it still appropriate? A Bloody Mess (10:36 minutes) questions one such set of customs. Varsha… Continue reading A Bloody Mess: The Battle of Individuality Against Tradition

Mente Mariposa, directed by Sebastian Ortiz Wilkins is an experimental short film which in 6 minutes, through the art of the metaphor swiftly and briefly traces the near-death experiences of a man and a woman buried alive in coffins. ‘Death’ narrates and compares the life of the humans in the coffins to its garden while… Continue reading An Exhilarating Experience With Mente Mariposa

People’s reaction to trauma is so mind-bogglingly complex and varied, that simplistic reasoning does not necessarily explain or predict it. Some close down, some breakout but clumsily, while some others might just try to go about their daily lives as though nothing happened. Manuela Vasquez’s Lighthouse delves into the reaction a dancer, Paige has to… Continue reading Lighthouse: Important Story Clumsily Told