A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Nicholas Wenger, “The Kid” (2018) “The Kid” is a six-minute proof-of-concept film made to demonstrate the potential of certain themes and issues that a longer and…
Arabic-language Films, North American Films
Elan Dassani, Rajeev Dassani, “Seam” (2017) An excellent little film that could serve as a pilot for a television series, “Seam” posits that in the near…
Will Lowell, “Custom Order” (2017) Looks like I hit a dud sci-fi short for once on the DUST channel with Will Lowell’s “Custom Order”. For a…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Catherine Bonny, “Colony” (2018) Partly informed by the history of early European settlement in Australia, as well as perhaps stories of the treatment of prisoners in…
Andre LeBlanc, “They Watch” (2016) In the near future, a mother and her teenage son living in small-town America are under siege from an oppressive police-state…
Nicholas Camp, Don Thiel III, “Orbit” (2019) A clever re-telling of the classic Edgar Allan Poe short story “The Tell-Tale Heart”, this short film explores the…
Andrew Hunt, “Clean Cut” (2015) From DUST, an online channel specialising in screening science fiction films made by up-and-coming film-makers comes this very amusing and cheeky…
French and French-language Films
Valerie Bousquie, Josephine Meis, Antoine Vignon, Benjamin Warnitz, “Protocole Sandwich” (2019) This very likeable and comic-strip-styled animation comes across as a satirical commentary on conformism, mass…
French and French-language Films
Soham Chakraborty, Hanxu Chen, M Joffily, Justin Polley, Julie Trouve, “In Orbit” (2019) Similar to Gobelins’ 2018 release “Quand j’ai remplacé Camille” in its theme of…
Victor Alonso-Berbel, “Perfectly Natural” (2018) No aliens, monsters, paranormal events or denizens of Hell or the 25th dimension abound here but this 12-minute short is as…