The 13th edition of the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival took place in London at the end of last month (20th-29th July, 2011). The festival gives awards to short films in 8 competitive categories: Documentary, Animation, Music Video, Broadcast Design, International, Newcomers, Short, and Long Form (for films over 12 minutes but under 30 minutes long). [...]
Children are cinema’s simultaneously fetishized commodity and artless liability. You can’t harm them, yet you can have them perpetrate terrible acts of inhumanity. ”Ana’s Playground” cuts through the malaise of hypocrisy and transmits a violent, chaotic reality usually relegated to somewhere “out there” right into your brain. This 18 minute short centers on a ragged, [...]
Brilliant, vivid colors flood the opening moments of Ya’Ke Smith’s latest short film, “Katrina’s Son.” A bright yellow sun bathes a young boy in a beautiful warmth — a superficial warmth obscured by the coldness of death, abandonment. Ed, a young New Orleans resident quietly mourns the death of his grandmother and only guardian in [...]
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