Closeup: To Die By Your Side (Mourir auprès de toi)
Buy tickets for our April 13 screening Spike Jonze is well-known for directing films like Where The Wild Things Are, Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, but he made his name making short films, specifically music videos. And unlike many directors who go on to direct full-length feature films, Jonze has continued making short films in […]
Full Program for our April Screening
UPDATE (March 1, 2012): Future Shorts has added The Arm to the program. See the synopsis below! I’m happy to share the full program for our April 13 screening with you today. We’ll be showing two acclaimed Canadian shorts in addition to the Future Shorts pop up festival slate. Over the next few weeks, I’ll […]
Closeup: The External World
Buy tickets for our January 13 screening! I came across the work of 26-year-old Irish filmmaker David O’Reilly completely by accident a little more than a year ago. I was interested in applying for the Berlinale Talent Campus, a sort of workshop for various types of people working in film. I was interested in the […]
Closeup: Luminaris
Buy tickets for our January 13 screening! Argentinian director Juan Pablo Zaramella has been making short films for a decade, but while he started as a claymation animator, his latest film is an interesting sort of “live action” claymation, in which real actors are animated frame by frame like clay figures. This form of animation, […]
Closeup: CMYK
Buy tickets for our January 13 screening! Marv Newland is a legend in the world of animation. His first film Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969) became a sensation, even in the days before the Internet made seeing it as simple as a visit to YouTube. Over the past four decades, he’s created his own films and […]
Closeup: God of Love
Buy tickets for our January 13 screening! Our second closeup is on Luke Matheny’s Oscar-winning short film God of Love. Matheny himself plays Raymond, a lounge-singing darts champion who is in love with Kelly (Marion Brock), the drummer in his band. Unfortunately, she’s in love with Fozzie (Christopher Hirsch), the band’s guitarist. Things change when […]
Closeup: Deeper Than Yesterday
Over the coming weeks, I’m going to begin breaking down our program film by film. Hopefully, this will make you wild with enthusiasm which will lead you to buy advance tickets immediately for yourself and all your friends. Fingers crossed, anyway. I first became aware of Australian filmmaker Ariel Kleiman when I saw his short […]
Full Program for our January Screening
I’m happy to share the full program for our January 13 screening with you today. We’ll be showing two NFB animated shorts before the Future Shorts pop up festival slate. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing more information about each film individually, but for now, here’s the overview. If you like what you […]