DOGGY SEE EVIL **** USA 2017 Dir: Robyn August. 2 mins Writer-director Robyn August created this two-minute gem for the #MyAnnaBelleCreation Contest. He knows what scares you if you’re a pet owner and cast his own beloved puppy Sriracha in the title role. This outrageously cute and expressive canine is…
Browsing: Short Film
SNAP **** USA 2016 Dir: Robyn August. 2 mins Rival Tides lead singer-turned-filmmaker Robyn August is emerging as a master of the cinema of short, sharp unease. In SNAP, he takes the lead role (and sports a nifty Jason Voorhees Crystal Lake T-shirt) as a guy rooting through a bunch…
THE HOBBYIST **** USA 2016 Dir: George Vatistas. 9 mins American short story writer Fredric Brown has enjoyed deserved accolades over the decades from creative giants as varied as Philip K Dick, Guillermo Del Toro and Stephen King, and his 1961 story “The Hobbyist” has now been adapted by writer-director…
CHATEAU SAUVIGNON: TERROIR **** USA 2016 Dir: David E Munz-Maire. 13 mins Set against a fabulously eerie, isolated backdrop, this distinctive short has a suitably haunted Michael Lorz as a tired, pallid young man working tirelessly at the eponymous location while his vintner family decline. His father is unsympathetic and…
THE SON, THE FATHER… **** USA 2017 Dir: Lukas Hassel. 13 mins A visually striking short from writer-director Lukas Hassel, shot in Renton, Washington. The first, portentous image is of a fly buzzing around a whiskey glass. A sense of dread surrounds what should be an innocuous scene of a…