Walt Eastfield
Nov 5, 2018
The Garden of Gethsemane [Galina Altman, Russia, 2018]
The shot of a woman’s hand caressing the tips of barley in a sprawling countryside field beneath a clear blue sky, instantly recalls the...
Walt Eastfield
Nov 5, 2018
Hindsight (In Real Time) [Tom Worrall, UK, 2017]
Hindsight (In Real Time) takes places in an alternate world where everyone knows when and how they are going to die. Peter Welles is the...
Alison Girault
Nov 5, 2018
The Hidden Injuries of Dreams [Giacomo Ecce, USA, 2017]
The notion that time has the power to change and heal is one that often emerges closely after a point of prior destruction, damage or...
Walt Eastfield
Nov 3, 2018
Pas de Deux, Froid [Carles Pamies, Spain, 2017]
Two homeless people walk separately towards their respective place of rest for the night on a cold and uninviting Spanish street. Each of...
Walt Eastfield
Nov 3, 2018
Utakata [Luca Ogawa Depardon, USA, 2017]
“We are all ants! And ants are inside you!” reads the cryptic tagline from Luca Ogawa Depardon’s playfully surrealistic Utakata....
Michael K. Adler
Nov 3, 2018
Tennessee [Jack Wedge, USA, 2017]
Surreal and futuristic animated fantasy Tennessee is a mesmerising and strangely uplifting depiction of love in a time of increasing...
Patricia Watney
Nov 3, 2018
For Liberty [Roan Bibby, USA, 2017]
The film opens with a dream sequence of our protagonist Jim peering through a telescope at a bikini-clad woman in sunglasses. He wakes...
Walt Eastfield
Nov 3, 2018
A City of Nature [Felicity Silverthorne, Ireland, 2017]
A City of Nature is a 5-minute documentary about environmental conservation efforts in Galway, Ireland. It is a very low-budget ‘talking...
Walt Eastfield
Nov 1, 2018
SHORT FOCUS 2018: Iconoclast [Alex Haney, USA, 2017]
Alex Haney’s Iconoclast is a bold and compelling exploration of shame and denial told through the eyes of a black, Jewish and gay...
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...