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Gowanus, Brooklyn (2004, Ryan Fleck)
Gowanus, Brooklyn is quite possibly the best you could hope for early aughts digital video short. Director Fleck and cinematographer Chris Scarafile know the limitations of the medium. Some of those...
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24 Hours in the Life of a Clown (1946, Jean-Pierre Melville)
Per 24 Hours in the Life of a Clown, those twenty-four hours go from sad to happy. Well, wait; they actually go from narrating man in the shadows, face in said shadows, only the brim of his fedora...
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Veracity (2015, Seith Mann)
Veracity is exceedingly impressive, in its parts and how they make up the whole. On their own, the filmmaking, the writing, and KiKi Layne’s performance are enough for the short to impress. Each has a...
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Love Exists (1960, Maurice Pialat)
With a title like Love Exists, it seems reasonable the short might turn around and stop being so intensely depressing, but no. The film, written and directed by Pialat with narration by Jean-Loup...
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Thistles and Thorns (2019, Kalie Acheson)
Thistles and Thorns opens with a girl (Madison Vance) going into a forest preserve after school. Vance is practically beaming as she does, which doesn’t initially make sense—when she’s walking on the...
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Two Cars, One Night (2004, Taika Waititi)
Trying to describe Two Cars, One Night without getting schmaltzy might be difficult. It’s sublime, gentle, tender, funny, brilliant, inspired, exceptional. Director Waititi’s just as phenomenal...
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Dirty Computer (2018, Alan Ferguson, Emma Westenberg, Andrew Donoho, Lacey...
Dirty Computer is hard to explain. It’s fairly easy to describe—it’s a fifty-six minute short film (or “emotion picture” as creator Janelle Monáe describes it) compilation of Monáe’s music videos for...
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One Hundred a Day (1973, Gillian Armstrong)
One Hundred a Day is a terrifying eight minutes. Rosalie Fletcher is a factory girl in the thirties and she’s in trouble. Her more worldly friends, Jenee Welsh and Virginia Portingale, know where she...
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Young Couples Only (1955, Richard Irving)
Young Couples Only is really good. Especially when you consider how Bill Williams is so weak in the lead and how director Irving never does anything special. He never does anything bad, he just doesn’t...
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Hard Luck (1921, Edward F. Kline and Buster Keaton)
Hard Luck starts as a… failed suicide attempt comedy. Nothing morbid, just absurd and slapstick. And a little dumb. Star, director, and writer Keaton always has dangerous ideas for ending his life, but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
24 Hours in the Life of a Clown (1946, Jean-Pierre Melville)
Per 24 Hours in the Life of a Clown, those twenty-four hours go from sad to happy. Well, wait; they actually go from narrating man in the shadows, face in said shadows, only the brim of his fedora...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Veracity (2015, Seith Mann)
Veracity is exceedingly impressive, in its parts and how they make up the whole. On their own, the filmmaking, the writing, and KiKi Layne’s performance are enough for the short to impress. Each has a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Love Exists (1960, Maurice Pialat)
With a title like Love Exists, it seems reasonable the short might turn around and stop being so intensely depressing, but no. The film, written and directed by Pialat with narration by Jean-Loup...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Thistles and Thorns (2018, Kalie Acheson)
Thistles and Thorns opens with a girl (Madison Vance) going into a forest preserve after school. Vance is practically beaming as she does, which doesn’t initially make sense—when she’s walking on the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Two Cars, One Night (2004, Taika Waititi)
Trying to describe Two Cars, One Night without getting schmaltzy might be difficult. It’s sublime, gentle, tender, funny, brilliant, inspired, exceptional. Director Waititi’s just as phenomenal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dirty Computer (2018, Alan Ferguson, Emma Westenberg, Andrew Donoho, Lacey...
Dirty Computer is hard to explain. It’s fairly easy to describe—it’s a fifty-six minute short film (or “emotion picture” as creator Janelle Monáe describes it) compilation of Monáe’s music videos for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
One Hundred a Day (1973, Gillian Armstrong)
One Hundred a Day is a terrifying eight minutes. Rosalie Fletcher is a factory girl in the thirties and she’s in trouble. Her more worldly friends, Jenee Welsh and Virginia Portingale, know where she...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Young Couples Only (1955, Richard Irving)
Young Couples Only is really good. Especially when you consider how Bill Williams is so weak in the lead and how director Irving never does anything special. He never does anything bad, he just doesn’t...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hard Luck (1921, Edward F. Kline and Buster Keaton)
Hard Luck starts as a… failed suicide attempt comedy. Nothing morbid, just absurd and slapstick. And a little dumb. Star, director, and writer Keaton always has dangerous ideas for ending his life, but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Recorded Live (1975, S.S. Wilson)
Recorded Live is a student film. So director, writer, and animator Wilson’s flat composition gets some wide latitude. He’s got this silly slapstick score on a sound picture, with John Goodwin getting...
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