Olha Savchenko is a student and member of The Centaurs, an experimental (yet practical) workshop established in 2024, during wartime, by Ukrainian filmmaker Dmitriy Tomashpolskiy at the Institute of Screen Arts of in Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Centaurs like Savchenko adapt classical myths or literary works into short films,…
The Short Films of David Lynch first published by Film4, Jan 2009 Includes: Six Men Getting Sick, The Alphabet, The Grandmother, The Amputee, The Cowboy and the Frenchman, Premonition Following an Evil Deed First a warning. Originally available as a digitally remastered edition only through Lynch’s personal website and now released for the first time…
Quay Brothers: The Short Films, 1979-2003 first published by Film4 in 2006 to coincide with the release of BFI’s two-disc DVD collection Summary: In these thirteen artfully animated shorts by the Quay Brothers, puppets break free of their strings, museum exhibits run riot, and the inmates take over the asylum. Review: When the BFI was in the…
The Early Films of Peter Greenaway 1 first published by Movie Gazette, 13 October 2003 Includes: Intervals, Windows, H is For House, Dear Phone, Water Wrackets, A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist Peter Greenaway is responsible for some of the most artfully idiosyncratic British feature films of the last quarter of a…
Film4 Foresight Shorts first published by SIght & Sound, December 2021 There are notable exceptions to be found in, for example, the Afrofuturist movement, but science fiction has predominantly been a white genre. Film4’s Foresight sets out to redress the imbalance by offering five short British sci-fi films which have been made by black and…
Lee Byung Yoon and the ‘Yuwol Universe’ first published by the London Korean Cultural Centre, 30 April 2021 Lee Byung Yoon was born in Seoul, was raised in the United States, and returned to Korea to study film directing at the Korea National University of Arts. There he discovered a love for dance, and, between…
Yi Ok-seop and Koo Kyo-hwan: three short films first published by the London Korean Cultural Centre Capsule reviews of: Where Is My DVD?, A Dangerous Woman, Girls On Top Yi Ok-seop is the writer/director of a number of short films (starting with her 2010 debut Please Find My Mum), and of the feature Maggie (2019), which…
And So Again Today: Four short films from the Underground Salon first published by the Korean Cultural Centre UK And So Again Today is the collective title for a compilation of four Korean short films, all directed by actors, and all posted on the YouTube channel Salon De 0.5 F (Underground Salon) in 2020. In…
Show Pieces first published by Grolsch FilmWorks Nothing could be more mysterious, or indeed more mundane, than death. It transcends the barriers of class, gender, age. It is universal, and yet also brutally particular – and life’s biggest punchline, with no comeback usually possible. Throw in sex, and you have the two most important themes…