Playing God has its New York première at Tribeca 2025, 6 Jun “And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.” Genesis 1 marks not just the beginning of the Bible, but the beginning of the universe as created by God. Matteo Burani’s short film Playing God also begins with the appearance of…
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass screened at the Offscreen Film Festival, 16 Mar 2025, together with Peter Strickland’s short film Cobbler’s Lot (2018) Twin brothers Stephen and Timothy Quay first made their name for a series of highly mannered hand animated short films, including Street of Crocodiles (1986) which was adapted from a…
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On first published by VODzilla.co, 17 Jun 2023 In the past, whenever couple Mark (Thomas Mann) and Larissa (Rose Salazar) got into a shouting match, the shells and other miniature life forms with which they unwittingly shared their home would flee to the sock drawer for cover. Which is to…
Stopmotion opens with the image of an object floating in space. It is just like the beginning of Eraserhead (1977), which later included some of its own stopmotion sequences – and much as David Lynch superimposed the bobbing face of his protagonist Henry Spencer over the planet to suggest that what we are seeing is…
A Town Called Panic (Panique au village) first published by EyeforFilm, 5 Oct 2010 For all its bric-à-brac simplicity, A Town Called Panic (Panique au village) has been around for a long time in numerous forms. Starting life in 1991 as Stéphane Aubier‘s graduation short, this rustic papier-mâché world of weird was revisited a decade…
Alice first published by EyeforFilm “Stick to the text!”, the King of Hearts demands – in vain – near the end of Jan Svankmajer‘s Alice, as the titular heroine (played by Kristýna Kovoutová) refuses to read out her scripted statement in court, let alone to bow to his or the Queen’s arbitrary authority. The King’s…