Vincent Dolan
Aug 4, 2020
Bite Me! [Sergei Safiullin, USA, 2019]
Eighty calls will have been made to domestic violence hotlines across the US in the same time it takes to watch Bite Me! This is a stark fac
Patricia Watney
Jul 30, 2020
One Bad Post [Mycle Scheuer, UK, 2019]
Two friends, Chaz and Frankie stumble from a reunion party into the woods and Chaz, having had one too many, begins feeling sick. Frankie fo
Dean Archibald-Smith
Jul 28, 2020
Decrescendo [Olivia Chiesi, USA, 2019]
The 11-minute short opens with a young man in sunglasses driving a luxury, vintage convertible through the palm tree-lined Hollywood Hills.
Vincent Dolan
Jul 21, 2020
Misophonia [Bhavik C. Pankhania, UK, 2019]
The protagonist is sat in a restaurant waiting for his girlfriend to arrive, looking at a ring he has with him. A series of images appear sh
Vincent Dolan
Jul 21, 2020
Sandra Loves Guns: Life and Death of a Drug Lord [Julia Tarissan & Swann Darcy, France, 2019]
The story revolves around J. J. Jones, a drug lord or “socially conscious businessman”, as he prefers, whom a journalist is interviewing. J.
Thom Carter
May 11, 2020
Deer Season [Cameron McHarg, USA, 2018]
In its preoccupations and formal economy Deer Season feels of a lineage of twentieth-century American stories, but the men’s experiences are
Sam Briggs
Feb 5, 2020
Reckless Love [Josh Wichaison, Australia, 2018]
One positive is the effective use of colouring and lighting transitions to communicate not only shifts in the passage of time, but also in t
Sam Briggs
Jan 7, 2020
Subverse (Ep. 1+2) [Joseph White, USA, 2018]
Subverse is the brainchild of sci-fi director, Joseph White, a web series that follows lead character, ‘Max’ on his journey into the sordid
Sam Briggs
Jan 7, 2020
Sheriff [James L. Adams, UK, 2019]
The first is the short’s well-chosen selection of music, which helps remind the viewer of its Western traditions and assists in grounding th
Sam Briggs
Jan 3, 2020
SHORT FOCUS 2019: Teddy Mate [Rommel Villa, USA, 2018]
Teddy Mate delivers a ‘disneyfied’ version of what, regrettably, is still too often viewed as an ‘alternative message’, forced for too long