Tolu, a Nigerian toilet attendant in a Glasgow-based nightclub is trying to earn some extra money by providing her customers with cosmetic products.
Festivals, GSFF (Glasgow Short Film Festival), Shorts
GSFF review: Expensive Shit
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Festivals
Festivals, GSFF (Glasgow Short Film Festival), Shorts
GSFF review: Against The Tide
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The short documentary by Giulia Candussi has nothing to do with the Stevenson’s legacy. She is following a new candidate for the community Gill on her trial period to joing the chosen
Documentaries, Festivals, SXSW
SXSW 2021: When Claude Got Shot
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Gun crime and its consequences are the subject of When Claude Got Shot, a brilliantly wide-ranging and nuanced examination of a topic that all too often lives in black and white simplicities.
Documentaries, Festivals, SXSW
SXSW 2021: United States Vs Reality Winner (2021)
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Using tapes of the FBIs initial conversation with Winner as well as access to her family and experts in the field, Kennebeck’s film is a forcefully constructed argument and a reclaiming of a character from the public space.
Documentaries, Festivals, SXSW
SXSW 2021: Spring Valley (2021)
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History is made not only by what we record but how we record it. From Goya’s War Sketches to the mobile phone footage of George Floyd’s murder, the medium can – to quote Marshall McLuhan – be the message.
Berlinale, Festivals, Shorts
‘My Uncle Tudor’, Berlinale review: The illusion of Consent
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From the start, Tudor is depicted with a sense of estrangement: through the veil, out of focus, partly hidden behind another person.
Berlinale, Festivals, Shorts
Review: Young Hearts (2021)
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One thing is certain: no one in their right mind would ever want to go back to their teen years and live through them again.
Berlinale, Experimental Films, Festivals, GSFF (Glasgow Short Film Festival), Shorts
Review: One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean (2021)
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Wang’s directing, essentially composed of editing short clips together in the rhythmical fashion, is apt for a piece of video-art
Berlinale, Documentaries, Festivals, Shorts
Review: Strange Object (2021)
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Miranda Pennell’s short documentary Strange Object, which premiered recently at Berlinale Shorts, is deliberately constructed that way so the viewer has to walk the same route of exploration as the filmmaker did previously
Berlinale, Festivals, Shorts
Review: Vadim on a Walk (2021)
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We meet our titular protagonist while he’s sitting in a transparent square space, picking up the courage to step out of it and explore the unknown world that lays in front of his eyes.
