The Killer Service: Friendship and Rage Unite in Thriller Origin Story
Gio Randazzo’s The Killer Service sets up the origin story of its protagonist, Elliott for an upcoming series. A proof-of-concept ...
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Ill Fares the Land: Guilt, Fear and Conflict in a Story (Not) About a Mermaid
Patrick Ireland’s Ill Fares the Land succeeds in creating the impression of something alive out of itself. And indeed it ...
Mandje: The Limits of Greed and the Steep Fall Beyond
Cameron Currin and Cody Kristapovich’s 18-minute Mandje is a loose adaptation of The Fisherman and His Wife (adapted by Josh ...
Are We Doing This?: Sex, Murder, and Misunderstandings at an Office Party
Harvey Puttock’s Are We Doing This? loves a good misunderstanding. Arriving with the hopes of facilitating a promotion at work, ...
God Willing: Tale of Slow Ruin and its Violent Grief
Valentina Tross’ God Willing, written by Hooriah Riaz, is ambitiously and beautifully melodramatic, if somewhat constrained by its runtime. At ...
Playground: The View from the Left Behind Daughter
Playground constructs a duality of experience for its child protagonist in her relationship with her mother: frightening chaos on the ...
The Countryman: Negotiation with the Rules of the Western
Andy Kastelic’s The Countryman has blossomed out of the Western, owes its distinction to the genre, and leaves behind the ...
LifeQuest: Personifying Science and Business
Richard Lounello’s 28-minute sci-fi LifeQuest interweaves two narrative threads, one existing under the ambit of the other: a corporate invention ...
Genre INC.: Programmed Experiences and Their Unsettling Recycle Bin
Ela Gavrila’s 16-minute Genre INC. is a sci-fi that explores constructed, corporate mediated personal realities. Co-written by Gavrila and Gabriel ...
Jake, the failure: The Experience of Despair in the Face of Devaluation
Dealing with the disaffection of being an artist of any kind today, Julian Sibal’s Jake, the failure is a 9-minute ...
