Reviews
RSSF2012: The Long Form Award
More space to spread your directorial wings, but all the time in the world to fall flat on your face, Rushes Soho Shorts’ Long Form Award is the place for live action, fictional work up to 30 minutes in length and it’s where we found a film about saying goodbye, a failing father and a [...]
RSSF2012: The International Award
Featuring 15 short fictional films created outside the UK, the Rushes Soho Shorts’ International Award shortlist is, as it was last year, awash with diversity, with the differing backgrounds and viewpoints of the filmmakers providing an interesting insight into culturalperspective. Trotteur – Arnaud Brisebois & Francis Leclerc Trotteur, Arnaud Brisebois & Francis Leclerc’s first venture [...]
RSSF2012: The Music Video Award
While last year’s Rushes Soho Shorts Music Video selection threw up a nice mix of impressive promos, this year I’ve had a hell of a time selecting only three favourites from the many quality offerings. In the end a prostitute, a serial killer and a storm at sea earned their places amongst my picks. Spiritualized: [...]
RSSF2012: The Short Film Award
Featuring films no longer than 15 minutes, from established UK directors, the Short Film category at this year’s Rushes Soho Shorts festival featured a powerful and entertaining array of fictional shorts. The three highlights of 2012 included a well-written robbery, a dark comedy from an established musician/director and surprisingly a fashion film commissioned for Mulberry. [...]
RSSF2012: The Newcomer Award
When I covered the Newcomer category last year I marvelled at the opportunity it provided for short film veterans to discover new filmmaking voices who were yet to appear on their radars. This year I have to admit that two-thirds of my picks have already found their way onto DN, guess our radar’s got more [...]
DN Picks: Jun12
The (supposedly) summer month of June provided two animated opportunities to contemplate religion, humanity and greed; firstly, DN alumni Jossie Malis launched his Kickstarter campaign for Bendito Machine by releasing the long awaited fourth instalment and secondly French directing trio Nobrain explored planetary birth and the rapid evolution of its populous into exploitative war mongers [...]
RSSF2012: The Pushing Boundaries Award
Rushes Soho Shorts’ Pushing Boundaries category features films with innovative ideas that test the filmakers’ creative borders, as well as audience expectations. Populated with adverts for well-known brands and experimental pieces, the shortlist contains a few standout films that may already be familiar to regular DN visitors. Shift – Max Hattler When it comes to [...]
The Church of London: What We’re Doing; What We’ve Done
Sometimes an invite drops through the letterbox/inbox that can’t be turned down, even if it is the first school night after a heavy four day weekend. Such an invite was the opening of 71a Leonard Street, the new space inhabited by The Church of London. TCOLondon is the creative agency behind Little White Lies and [...]
Vimeo Festival 2012: DN Picks
With little insight into the judging process or any real logic save ‘we love this one’, here are our picks for the best of each category in the Vimeo Festival 2012 ahead of tonight’s awards. Animation Probably one of the strongest categories this year; Fabian Grodde’s Crossover could win for the intricate attention to detail [...]
Vimeo Festival 2012: Captured Finalists
There’s nothing quite like being there, but until cloning and teleportation become everyday technologies we’re always going to need people out there to be our eyes and ears. The captured category of the Vimeo awards features video which captures your own artistic expression or performance as the subject and so provide an experience as close [...]
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