Walt Eastfield
- Sep 21, 2018
Podge [Rebecca Singleton, Ireland, 2017]
This tale of a lonely mortician goes to dark and disturbing ends to explore the link between morality and desire. Podge, the eponymous...
Walt Eastfield
- Sep 21, 2018
D For Docs [Joe Sikoryak, USA, 2017]
Professor Marty is a documentary film teacher who is exasperated by what he believes to be a class full of inattentive and uninspired...
Patricia Watney
- Sep 20, 2018
A Tale of War [Hossein Jehani, Iraq, 2018]
Hossein Jehani’s A Tale of War is a harrowing 20-minute documentary from Iraq, which shines an expository light on the lives of refugees...
Alison Girault
- Sep 20, 2018
SHORT FOCUS 2018: Tracing Coyotes – A Dog Crosses My Way [Theresa Grysczok/Eeva Ojanperä, GER, 2016]
Tracing Coyotes – A Dog Crosses My Way is a mesmerising display of ingenuity. An exercise in stop-motion photography, imagist poetry and...
Alison Girault
- Jun 26, 2018
The Island [Martin Van Hassel, Spain, 2018]
Four strangers – a young woman draped in a silk gown, a nanny, a musician and an old man – meet at a pedestrian crossing where they...
Walt Eastfield
- Jun 3, 2018
Echo [Galina Altman, Russia, 2018]
Capturing the transient nature of life in all of its tragic beauty, and doing so within one 60-second shot is an ambitious feat to say...
Dean Archibald-Smith
- Apr 27, 2018
Pub Crawl [James Goodchild, UK, 2017]
From the film’s opening title card, a direct visual reference to Seinfeld (US, 1990-98), Pub Crawl knowingly nods and winks us into...
Dean Archibald-Smith
- Apr 24, 2018
Fractured Horizon [Lucas Coyte, UK, 2018]
Lucas Coyte’s Fractured Horizon is quite the spectacle to behold. Light on narrative and entirely free of dialogue, the film is...