Filmshortage

An actress is struggling to make a crowdfunding video to bolster her flailing career. When a passerby unintentionally disrupts her shoot, he becomes the catalyst for her downward spiral.

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Short films, by their very nature, tell powerful stories in a limited amount of time. They don’t have the same scope as a full-feature movie. As a result, directors rely on strong themes, sharp pacing, and memorable ideas to leave an impression on audiences.

To stand out, some of the most compelling short films are founded on concepts like luck, fate, and chance.

Vaivén follows three generations of beachgoers from sunrise to sunset in Barcelona – a study of patterns, rhythm, and the natural cadence of a day at the beach. In a nuanced exploration of simple moments and human emotion, the film serves as a sensory portrait told through sound, and movement.

In April of 2024 I made a small piece of animation that was the seed of the idea: frames of animation built up on a rotating platform. I was interested in the dynamic between the growing sculptural form of accumulating frames and the more two dimensional experience of the interior animation. The sculpture becomes the carcass of the film’s expired animated life, and by reconci...

Grief Beast is a short film about a young woman who loses her mom and gains a demon-like entity that follows her around and won’t leave her the f*** alone. He’s kind of obsessed with her and she’s… starting to like him.

Based *loosely* on my real life experience after losing both my parents.