By David Pountain Directed by Patrick Vollrath Everything Will Be Okay, the slow-burning short from Patrick Vollrath, expands upon the knowingly empty platitude of its title – a trite, humouring reassurance – to engage as […]
SHORT FILMS
By Matthew Riordan Directed by Lee Whittaker Lee Whittaker has spent the majority of his film career working in Hollywood stunt departments. In his debut as writer-director he uses his vast experience coordinating action to […]
Dir: Todd Haynes By David Pountain Anyone familiar with Todd Haynes’ wonderful 2007 Bob Dylan tribute I’m Not There will know that the man has no interest in making straightforward biopics. But even in the context […]
Dir: Yuri Norshteyn By David Pountain At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival, a large international jury of critics and animators voted Yuriy Norshteyn’s 1979 short, Tale of Tales, the greatest animated film of […]
By Daniella Dahoui Dir: Dayyan Eng Based on a true story, the Chinese short film Bus 44Â starts with a man hopping onto a bus, only for the bus to be hijacked by two highway robbers […]