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,…
Vimeo Last week, the proof-of-concept short The Leviathan was all the rage online. Today we learned that it’s being turned into a feature. Now here’s…
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…
Christina Amundsen/The Current We’re teaming with The Current for the next two months to deliver 10 short films from 10 different directors, focused on social…
Mikko Löppönen Why Watch? This short film proves that at least one filmmaking collective in Finland is obsessed with the fungus-murdering “The Last of Us.”…
The Woolshed Company Why Watch? This short film from Richard Hughes is sweat and gristle. It’s the cinematic equivalent of a fist. Yet like most outstanding…
Live Unbound Why Watch? To be honest, there’s a lot of schmaltz going on in this documentary short film from Live Unbound, but sometimes that’s…
Sal Bardo Why Watch? At the center of this short film from Sal Bardo is a sex scene made uncomfortable to watch not by the…
The Criterion Collection This is another edition of Short Starts, where we present a weekly short film(s) from the start of a filmmaker or actor’s career.…