Skin: The Profundity of Transitioning, Distilled
The logline to Leo Behrens’s Skin describes it as a poetic self-exploration of identity. It does not mention the utter ...
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Second Stage: A Glimpse into a Day Transiting Through Grief
Keelay Moore James’s autobiographical Second Stage follows a woman through a day of grappling with grief as she goes through ...
Fool’s Game: Marriage and Its Many Excesses
Laurence Roberts’s Fool’s Game takes what is already a generally stressful affair (hosting a dinner with old peers) and cranks ...
Maladjustment: The Horrors in Lived Experience
Anatasha Blakely’s Maladjustment is a horror harnessing the unique experience of the pandemic lockdowns of a past that is yet ...
Bonding: A Spy Mystery Before the Thrills Come In
Luke Rex’s Bonding has a lot less to do with making friends than with avoiding vexing potential enemies. The 13-minute ...
I Love Who You Are: Heartbreak and Questions that Evade Us
Joe Acierno’s I Love Who You Are takes a minimalist approach to explore a man’s heartbreak in this 5-minute drama. ...
Chastity: Part Two of the Saga of Groupie Academy and its Students
The second episode of the Clark brothers’ Groupie, Chastity: The Rock Groupie is shorter than its predecessor with a 23-minute ...
Pumpkinstein: Sinners and Monsters, Doomed to Exist Without Dignity
Michael Natoli’s Pumpkinstein is a 21-minute horror spanning decades, nay, centuries, as it follows a witch with a bloody past ...
Dream Big: With Great Tiny Art Comes Great Responsibility to Avoid Localised Disasters
Pip Swallow’s 12-minute Dream Big is a fantasy comedy that teaches its timid protagonist to not just increase the scope ...
Later Gator: Pulling a Dead Friendship Out by the Roots
Kevin Quinn’s Later Gator is a comedy-drama that knows how to balance tension with humour, stemming from the same source: ...
