Standing stones, urban hellscapes and male nudes: Derek Jarman’s glorious Super 8 short films
The easy freedom of this medium allowed the artist to range over subjects as diverse as Tarot, male nudes at Fire Island and a friend’s flat – and offer clues to his more public feature films
April 2024
Lineup announced for UK’s inaugural Muslim international film festival
In Short, Europe: Best of Best review – heady celebration of European short film-making
March 2024
The 2024 Oscar shorts review – intense drama, enticing animation and essential documentary
While Wes Anderson’s nomination has caused mild controversy there is an enticing and eclectic mix of strong contenders worthy of the win
August 2023
Short sharp shocks: the glorious return of the Amicus portmanteau horror film
The studio that mastered the art of the gleefully ghoulish cinematic short-story collection in the 60s and 70s is set to return. It may just raise a terrific genre from the dead
June 2023
The week in dance: Finnish National Ballet Youth Company; Air de Temps, Inside the Blind Iris – review
The ROH’s Next Generation festival launched with a Finnish flourish, while two uplifting collaborations show the possibilities of dance on film
May 2023
Three things
Three things with Kat Stewart: ‘It had seen more domestic action than any garment should’
In our weekly interview about objects, the actor tells us about a luxurious dressing gown and her inherited love of tea
In Short, Europe: Explore review – a continental tasting menu for cinema
Slovenian girl power, Scottish body-positive burlesque, an animated Belgian throuple and a trans-curious Irish stablehand all feature in this collection of potent shorts
Tell It Like a Woman review – Cara Delevingne powers all-female short film package
Delevingne is pretty good and Mipo O’s story of a single mother struggling to stay afloat has impact – but most are on a spectrum between insipid and awful
April 2023
Nightmare Radio: The Night Stalker review – DJ scares up grab-bag of horror stories
Skulking foxes, future-telling CCTV, a psychiatric hospital and a pair of suspiciously pale vintners all feature in this assortment of treats and duds
March 2023
An Oscar for an ostrich? The Australian student’s animated film in contention at the Academy Awards
An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It was made by 26-year-old film-maker Lachlan Pendragon at his Brisbane home during Covid
February 2023
‘These women saved lives’: the film inspired by surviving Rwanda’s genocide
As a child, Jo Ingabire Moys saw the slaughter of her family. Thirty years on, her film Bazigaga, about a shaman heroine of the genocide, is shortlisted for a Bafta
January 2023
Oscars 2023: how to watch (almost) every nominated feature, doco and short in Australia
‘More people should see them’: Censor director Prano Bailey-Bond on her favourite short films
November 2022
A Bunch of Amateurs review – joyous and heartbreaking celebration of film-making passion
Kim Hopkins’ thoughtful documentary about the Bradford Movie Makers club has some unexpectedly deep things to say about camaraderie, community and male friendship
September 2022
A lineup without limits: the Jarman awards on tour – in pictures
Right of Way review – eccentric short film collection roams around rural England
August 2022
‘It’s absolutely disgusting’: watching George Miller’s rarely seen first film
In Violence in the Cinema, Part 1, an academic delivers a speech on brutality in film while he suffers – and commits – various violent acts
June 2022
The Camera Is Ours review – evocative shorts from pioneering female film-makers
This compilation of British documentary shorts, dating from the 1930s to the 1960s, comes with content warnings about racism – though the sexism can be just as shocking
May 2022
The Very Short Film festival 2022: watch this year's winning animation – video
Mark Bernard, a Melbourne-based self-taught artist responds to the 2022 theme of 'spring' with New Life, an animation telling the story of a young war refugee, who rebuilds after trauma – and eventually finds peace
