Being John Smith
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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Posted 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.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Apr 15, 2024 | Festivals, Stockfish 2024, Verdict Shorts |
In the slantwise ethnographic documentary ‘Empathfridges’, Rakel Jonsdottir explores the concept of shared fridges in Iceland to create microcosmic portraits of place and community.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Apr 12, 2024 | Festivals, Stockfish 2024, Verdict Shorts |
The experimental short If I die, will I go home? unnervingly explores the psyche of a young man wrestling with how to survive as an adult when bound by the long grip of childhood trauma.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Apr 11, 2024 | Festivals, Stockfish 2024, Verdict Shorts |
A young women who suffered a stroke at the age of thirteen, Hafey reconnects with the use of her body through dance in this moving and affirming documentary portrait.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Feb 22, 2024 | Berlinale 2024, Festivals, Verdict Shorts |
A man has his heart removed in an attempt to lessen his existential anguish in Fanny Sorgo and Eva Pedroza’s expressive, lingering animation, Tako Tsubo.
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