Short of the Week
SotW: How We Launched Our Film Online
Not content with hitting us with one of the best animated shorts you’re likely to see all year, the guys at Short of the Week have now provided a detailed explanation of how they launched The Thomas Beale Cipher online. It’s a great insight for filmmakers who want to get their film noticed and shows [...]
SotW: Two Men
If your execution is skillful enough, then even the simplest idea can become a fully engaging and thought provoking short: Rightly or wrongly we all make up little stories about the people and situations around us constantly throughout the day. Perhaps the woman crying opposite you on the tube just lost her job or the [...]
SotW: Everything is a Remix
Over at Short of the Week I take a look at Kirby Ferguson’s assertion that we’re all cultural magpies: Sit around with a bunch of filmmakers, musicians, designers or anyone from the creative fields for long enough and sooner or later talk will turn to the enabling power of technology and how it allows the [...]
SotW: The Apology Line by James Lees
Hey..I’ve got a secret to tell you over at Short of the Week: Confessing all to a priest or therapist can be a cathartic experience, but for those of us lacking in religious conviction or disposable income, director James Lees’ The Apology Line could be our only non-judgemental outlet for those dark admissions of wrongdoing. [...]
The Thomas Beale Cipher
If you sit down and think about it, it’s a hard thing to convince someone of your particular standards of quality or levels of taste. Sure you can show them things you like, things that represent the special something that catches your eye, but how do they ‘know’ conclusively what you think is great as [...]
SotW: Stand Up
First Short of the Week of the year and I can’t think of a better way to kick off 2011 than with Joseph Pierce’s sublime Stand Up. A great short, like any great feature film, will leave a lasting impression on you long after first viewing it. It’s been two and a half years since [...]
SotW: Top 10 Short Films of 2010
One look at our homepage at the moment will tell you that around the time of one year coming to an end and another year starting (or “New Year” as you may know it in a lot simpler & shorter terms!) , we’re all about the lists at DN. Our end of the year lists [...]
SotW: Somatic
I have some December Short of the Week goodness for you: What do close up shots of a lion, servers, urban areal stills and hanging meat have in common? No, I’m really asking because after watching the full 9 minutes of Christian Weber’s Somatic I’m still none the wiser… Have a read and watch. [...]
SotW: Thrush
I wrote a few words about recent Vimeo Festival winner Thrush over at Short of the Week: In a world dominated by the digital image and social media, the art of photography has changed so much that now every moment of every waking day appears to be captured. Thrush playfully highlights this theory and uses [...]
SotW: Bro
I wrote a few words about Chris Dundon’s latest short Bro over at Short of the Week: When you’re a teenager it can often be hard to fit in. Snap decisions by your peers about any aspect of you can mean the difference between being welcomed into their social circle or becoming relegated to that [...]
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