By David Pountain Speed Dating, a sprightly comedy short from Meghann Artes, holds a timid energy in its style that amusingly reflects the jittery mindset of a woman straying from her domestic comfort zone in a […]
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By David Pountain Ping-Wen Wang’s short drama Between Us is the story of a relationship that can never be any more than it already is, chronicling a decisive moment in an ongoing affair between married […]
By David Pountain Directed by Sudhanshu Saria The opening minutes of Loev, the promising debut feature from India’s Sudhanshu Saria, establishes the film’s world and the audience’s positioning within it like a jigsaw puzzle being systematically assembled […]
By David Pountain Tim Marshall’s gorilla is an open and entrancing short that itself inspires an openness to the universe at large. Beginning part of the way into a couple’s camping trip and climaxing with a […]
By David Pountain A potent exercise in sustained dread, Judd Myer’s horror short Son is an efficient and effective construction of ominous, claustrophobic imagery, chilling sounds and concise storytelling. Following a young boy left home […]
By David Pountain Benedict Campbell’s 2008 short Lloyd Neck is a moment of quiet contemplation amidst the bustle and bitchiness of adolescent life, tenderly fleshing out the intuitive nature of a relationship between two siblings. Shot […]