Really lovely, interesting and warm short film about a group of laundry workers getting together a poster celebrating the festival of Ganesh. Now, when I say poster, I don’t mean a bit of A4 stuck up in the break room. I mean something the size of a barn door. One guy uses last year’s poster…
Pride is the name of the University of Virginia’s Black Student Alliance’s newspaper. The short film is set back in the 1990s and depicts the student group getting together to discuss what to put out in their latest issue. The topic is financial aid is brought up, how it’s not enough, how difficult it is…
Marrying documentary and musical, Neon Phantom looks at the lives and struggles of delivery workers in Brazil. The film combines a lot of different styles, there are scripted drama skits, first hand narratives of real experiences, song and dance numbers about their frustrations. It’s an interesting choice. It gives a number of different ways for…
Horrific animated short film from Chile, which makes more sense if you know who Ingrid Olderock was. Be warned there are some deeply disturbing images in this, all the worse now I know they are based on a true story. Bestia starts by showing us the mundane life of a pudgy middle-aged woman. She bakes…
In My Network asks the question, what the fuck even is work anymore? We open and close with a janny coming in to clean. He narrates his own view on social media, one common among the older generation, that he has little to do with it, that he has a Facebook profile to keep in…