Essays

https://medium.com/media/4c9b38ff05cb03a9d80ad3ea9803e94c/href In his new introduction for Black Angel, writer/director Roger Christian warns us to set our expectations back by 34 years, but the short film…

https://medium.com/media/cdfe7de06566eead3ed6633da9433a68/href Seth Boyden’s animated short film An Object at Rest is a delightful study in watching a piece of nature driven crazy by mankind. It…

BHD Films 2015’s Stanley Film Fest closed its doors on Sunday after screening 27 features in total – 20 were new films, of which I’ve…

https://medium.com/media/89f03fc98635d5a7888dc50b87435624/href This article is part of Humanity and the Machine, our exploration of the cinematic interactions between humans and self-aware machines. Notre Dame is overrun…

https://medium.com/media/2fb455366749a73c69e8b4a2e69653fa/href Chris Capel’s short film Living with Jigsaw imagines the ideal roommate scenario: sharing a house with the creepy mascot of the Saw movies. The concept…

https://medium.com/media/02342e55380f88c09fc6079311c4a270/href The Mercadantes spent a year gathering a diverse range of footage to build a short film out of something that connects all of us:…

In 2015, critic Matthew Monagle explored what we can learn from the success of Letty, as played by Michelle Rodriguez in the Fast and Furious franchise.

https://medium.com/media/0c90967971d7618164cce1c256894ae9/href It’s easy to see over the course of several short films that Ben Kitnick is a huge fan of finding characters. Real or imagined,…

https://medium.com/media/a8f7bbabe5e1e5074aea551cb2ef8041/href It’s rare to see a short film these days that isn’t either wholly experimentally obtuse or so rigid that it scrambles to explain every…