A Close Encounter: The May-December Romance from Hell
Adam Linkenhelt’s A Close Encounter is a sex comedy detailing the meet-cute between two passengers on a near-empty flight. At ...
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Consumed: Serving Consumerism Plated on a Foundation of Grief
JP Bradham’s Consumed deploys horror and tumultuous film language to showcase the frenzied mental scape of a character caught in ...
Mayfly: Damming Charisma to Look at the Wreck Behind
Keith Andreen’s Mayfly lays bare the fallibility of glorious figures while graphing the ravaging work of grief. Twenty-seven minutes long, ...
Ghoul: Living in Sweetened Horror for A Mother-Son Duo
Magnus Lyche’s 16-minute domestic violence drama Ghoul showcases the experience from the perspective of the child in the household. His ...
Favorites: A List of Lost Favorites
Lauren Hoover-directed Favorites is an introspective drama where the past mingles with the present in a depiction of life as ...
The Doll Collector: The Inevitable Climax of the Familiar Story
Darius Clar’s 14-minute horror The Doll Collector sees two young women join hands with a sorceress. Plagued by problems beyond ...
Are You Awake?: Kinship in Dread and Paralysis in the Unnatural Everyday
Gabriel Caste’s Are You Awake? is an astute psychological drama that depicts routine dread with precision. Compressing time and history ...
Between the Lines: A COVID-Era Musical-Comedy that Gets it Just Right
Dom Lee’s Between the Lines is a 15-minute musical comedy that bears the markers of the COVID era, in that ...
Vanilla: Method Acting, Roleplaying, and How the Two Don’t Mix
Chase Pearson’s Vanilla, built as a classic sex comedy, uses its many twists and turns to deliver laughs that come ...
The Story of Mama Butterfly: Painstaking Creation and All its Poetic Ripples
YuQi-an’s 4-minute The Story of Mama Butterfly is short for a documentary but impactful nonetheless. Dispensing with perspective representation to ...
