Brute
An artist wrestles with the pressure of sculpting from a hulking wooden monolith in Brute, a beguiling existential horror about our impact on the world.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 16, 2026 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2026, Verdict Shorts |
An artist wrestles with the pressure of sculpting from a hulking wooden monolith in Brute, a beguiling existential horror about our impact on the world.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 17, 2026 | Festivals, Sarajevo 2026, Verdict Shorts |
Dear Orchid is a poetic and diaristic documentary, using the perspective of a child to ruminate on fleeing the siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990s.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 10, 2025 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2025, Verdict Shorts |
The short experimental documentary ‘perfectly a strangeness’ pairs the mundane with the majestic in an equine odyssey to the stars.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Feb 5, 2025 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2025, Verdict Shorts |
Tying together disparate locations in Northern England and Jamaica, Hope Strickland’s evocative boat ride, ‘a river holds a perfect memory,’ explores the interrelations between labour, memory and rivers.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Nov 16, 2024 | Featured, IDFA 2024 |
Delivered in his typically playful style, John Smith’s latest film, Being John Smith, is a wry reflection on the conventionality of his name dotted with radical flourishes.
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