Short Films

Why Watch? Tea is delicious. Granted, you can’t actually taste any of it through your computer screen, but never mind that. Chai is a documentary…

Why Watch? There’s been a wave of willfully strange, rambunctious animation recently, cartoons that assault and entertain equally. Eamonn O’Neill’s I’m Fine Thanks is one…

https://medium.com/media/3b040bd68b82c1e769622b2342f531aa/href Why Watch? Fish stories are great, and giant fish stories are even better. Set on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, Jonah (featured last week…

https://medium.com/media/5b07c09cea704702adf91f0f11827ed2/href Why Watch? Jiang Xuan’s skilled approach to social observation is both firm and deeply moving. August 15th, her first and only directing credit on…

https://medium.com/media/96077e49a58d560a7d531c4e0c29b3e4/href Why Watch? Even if you’ve had a bit of a bad day, whatever went wrong pales in comparison to the miserable luck spread by…

https://medium.com/media/38a90e809f96252b2fdba045837ba440/href Why Watch? Not quite yet done with the Cannes Film Festival, here’s a film from one of this year’s award winners. Anahita Ghazvinizadeh won…

https://medium.com/media/4f45d5e21d37cc4066dda82600641660/href Why Watch? This quite short but still entirely provocative short won the Short Film Palme d’Or at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. It’s the…

Brimming with touches of a psilocybin-laced Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the trailer for Ben Wheatley’s A Field in England promises a treasure hunt, screaming…

https://medium.com/media/8e7fde26a018d134ff79df39a57aa30c/href Why Watch? For starters, today begins the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and this trippy short won the short film Palme d’Or back in 1955.…