There’s nothing as dirty as money, as folk say. A waitress with a phobia about coins is really in the wrong job, in this German short horror film. The sound and music build to a crescendo as she starts to crack up with a customer who insists on paying in a slew of shrapnel. The…
In The Soil is a Danish short horror film. A daughter becomes concerned about her father after he becomes obsessed with digging a hole next to their house. From the size and shape of it, it’s clearly a grave. But for who?
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…
One Hundred Steps is a short film set inside two stately homes, Bantry House in Ireland and Musée Grobet-Labadié in France. Within the walls celebrating the great and the good, people play folk music, dance and sing, representing the voices and the cultures of the people who built these houses, worked in these houses, but…
In an empty city, at what feels like the end of time, an ancient woman recalls the world past, the world it was promised to be, and what came to be. Filmmaker Marta Pajek draws on Escher’s impossible objects and marries them to the socio-political ideas that seemed so plausible but were impossible to realise…
This comic-tragic short film opens with a shot of the Euromaidan protestors toppling the statue of Lenin in Ukraine’s capital. In tinging metal or rumbling granite, the remaining statues of Lenin lament to one another, their language of stone and steel translated for us in subtitles. “Another fallen comrade!” they sigh. To honour him, they…