Katrina’s Son (2010)
Brilliant, vivid colors flood the opening moments of Ya’Ke Smith’s latest short film, “Katrina’s Son.” A bright yellow sun bathes a young boy in a beautiful warmth — a superficial warmth obscured by...
View ArticleAna’s Playground (2009)
Children are cinema’s simultaneously fetishized commodity and artless liability. You can’t harm them, yet you can have them perpetrate terrible acts of inhumanity. “Ana’s Playground” cuts through...
View ArticleRushes Soho Shorts Festival 2011
The 13th edition of the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival took place in London at the end of last month (20th-29th July, 2011). The festival gives awards to short films in 8 competitive categories:...
View ArticleShort and Swede
Göteborg is the home of Scandinavia’s most important international film festival, offering one of the world’s most generous prizes: a Dragon Award of 1 million Swedish kronor (nearly 158 000 USD)...
View ArticleShorts at Locarno 2014: Highlights from young talent
A screenshot from All we Share A guest post from Mico Tatalovic, in Locarno, Switzerland. Strolling through the narrow streets of Locarno, a picturesque lake-side town surrounded by the Alps, on the...
View ArticleShorts at #Locarno67: meditation vs testing the audience’s patience
A guest blog from Mico Tatalovic When the representative of Single Stream, one of the shorts screened here, said ‘hope you enjoy our trashy movie’ I didn’t actually expect it to be about trash. Nor...
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