Short Film

Wes Anderson fans might be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed at the acclaimed film-director’s 2023 splurge after a three year hiatus: first the space-infused Asteroid City, and now four short films inspired by Roald Dahl, all available on Netflix – including The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. Impact's Christy Clark reviews....

Alex Watkin Hannah Tasker’s short Picking Up on Things has been nominated for Best Experimental Film at this year’s British Film Institute (BFI) Future Film Festival. The film is a lockdown-made desktop documentary which sees a filmmaker filming themselves to examine their behaviours. Picking Up on Things is amongst...

We’ve all heard of film festivals and wanted to attend one of these prestigious events, whether Cannes or Tribeca. However, these are somewhat out of reach for the average humble UoN student. What is not out of our reach is the Banff Mountain Film Festival, being broadcast next Wednesday...

What if society’s views were reversed? What if heterosexuality was not considered the norm? An overtly thought provoking concept turned indie film is Love Is All You Need? Nothing excited me too much in the trailer and it seemed to go on for a long 3 minutes, giving every...

Stripped back Alicia Keys has just dropped her sixth studio album ‘Here’. This album is a very daring comeback, four years since Keys’ last album, it appears to be a revelation and each melody is a prayer – openly discovering the raw and influential nature of identity, growth, opportunity...

It’s a well-known fact that if it doesn’t have a Pixar short at the start, it’s not a proper Pixar film. Inside Out is no different, accompanied by its own short entitled Lava. Lava is the story of two volcanoes that know each other are nearby but sadly cannot see one another....

Short films are not something people get overly excited about, are they? It was puzzling, then, to enter the cinema on the opening night of Mayhem’s tenth film festival and see the anticipation on the audience’s faces; it felt like an event. And they kept laughing and talking animatedly...