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Charlie Greep
Oct 2, 2019
A Light Before the Dark [Valentina Premoli, Italy, 2018]
The film is effectively a horror short story with the sort of twist horror short stories tend to have. Although A Light Before the Dark’s tw
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Sally Roberts
Sep 20, 2019
Piercing Stillness [Arepo, Italy, 2019]
Although, in his director’s statement Arepo writes that his motives are to celebrate stillness in a world so caught up with movement, this s
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Charlie Greep
Aug 20, 2019
Cyclamen [Davide Canali, Italy, 2018]
An interesting and gorgeously shot short film, Cyclamen explores what director Davide Canali describes as, “the interaction between the exte
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Sam Briggs
Apr 27, 2019
Straange Attractors [Richard Paske, USA, 2018] /// Spremuta di Mostro [Daniel Mercatali & Michel
When musician Richard Paske sat down on his piano in Minneapolis in 1998, it is unlikely that he envisioned the results becoming a...
Charlie Greep
Mar 5, 2019
Back Up My Memories (Selene Citro & Luna Lunardi, Italy, 2018)
Part speculative fiction and part introspective look at memory, Back Up My Memories is an interesting short film from directing duo...
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