
![Kachō Fūgetsu [Nobumichi Asai, Japan, 2016]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_0fedfc3c6c524d449d6c51c3ea92173e~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_0fedfc3c6c524d449d6c51c3ea92173e~mv2.webp)
Patricia Watney
Oct 31, 2018
Kachō Fūgetsu [Nobumichi Asai, Japan, 2016]
The term ‘Kachō Fūgetsu’ can be literally translated to “flower, bird, wind, moon”. A popular idiom in Japanese culture, taken in its...

![Connected Colours [Nobumichi Asai, Japan, 2016]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_d2580ca96da4427c9f0a3b27f5039b89~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_d2580ca96da4427c9f0a3b27f5039b89~mv2.webp)
Patricia Watney
Oct 31, 2018
Connected Colours [Nobumichi Asai, Japan, 2016]
Connected Colours is one of Nobumichi Asai’s earliest ventures in the world of face mapping technology and in this way feels more like a...

![Connected Flower [Nobumichi Asai, Japan, 2017]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_dbe90bbd2a744425948b60d23b99475d~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_dbe90bbd2a744425948b60d23b99475d~mv2.webp)
Patricia Watney
Oct 31, 2018
Connected Flower [Nobumichi Asai, Japan, 2017]
Nobumichi Asai’s Connected Flower is for more optimistic in outlook in comparison to his two films in the Inori series (see previous...

![We Pray All Nukes Will Eternally Disappear from the World [Nobumichi Asai, Japan, 2017]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_dbd6d58e7daf487dadf9a8e9fd329847~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_dbd6d58e7daf487dadf9a8e9fd329847~mv2.webp)
Patricia Watney
Oct 31, 2018
We Pray All Nukes Will Eternally Disappear from the World [Nobumichi Asai, Japan, 2017]
Another sensitive and challenging short film from Nobumichi Asai, We Pray All Nukes Will Eternally Disappear from the World is also...

![SHORT FOCUS 2018: Inori (Prayer) [Nobumichi Asai, Japan, 2017]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_019662a707084ddeba4241d50993e62e~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_019662a707084ddeba4241d50993e62e~mv2.webp)
Dean Archibald-Smith
Oct 30, 2018
SHORT FOCUS 2018: Inori (Prayer) [Nobumichi Asai, Japan, 2017]
The 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami is the inspiration behind this technically mind-blowing and visually powerful short performance...

![To the Ends of the Fingertips [Roswitha Chesher, UK, 2016]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_d65c845c5dad4a93aff93bc6d6892383~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_210,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_d65c845c5dad4a93aff93bc6d6892383~mv2.webp)
Patricia Watney
Oct 30, 2018
To the Ends of the Fingertips [Roswitha Chesher, UK, 2016]
What does freedom really mean? If one were to be truly free, how would the time be spent? Indeed, can we ever truly be free? These are...

![SHORT FOCUS 2018 – JURY PRIZE: XCTRY [Bill Brown, USA, 2018]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_350ab3a58747492aa0063f5d07f65266~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_236,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_350ab3a58747492aa0063f5d07f65266~mv2.webp)
Michael K. Adler
Oct 30, 2018
SHORT FOCUS 2018 – JURY PRIZE: XCTRY [Bill Brown, USA, 2018]
Bill Brown’s paean to the romance of the road is a wonderfully constructed visual journal and an artful document that elegantly captures...

![Number 13 [Jonell Rowe, UK, 2017]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_a5ddc26c9cc04ec791791a8f3fead016~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_a5ddc26c9cc04ec791791a8f3fead016~mv2.webp)
Michael K. Adler
Oct 1, 2018
Number 13 [Jonell Rowe, UK, 2017]
We’ve all been there before: stuck in a seemingly never-ending supermarket queue that dwindles only at the mercy of the dead-eyed, grumpy...

![Westbrook [Alexander Kaluzhsky, USA, 2017]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9b7dde_0a1582060dc44c9c9dc0f18685c277f9~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_315,h_177,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/9b7dde_0a1582060dc44c9c9dc0f18685c277f9~mv2.webp)
Michael K. Adler
Oct 1, 2018
Westbrook [Alexander Kaluzhsky, USA, 2017]
Westbrook is a semi-autobiographical and experimental short film that quietly explores the fractured elements of the filmmaker’s own...