Slamdance Film Festival

OLD MOON

By Elias Savada | January 2014

2014 SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL NARRATIVE SHORT FILMS SELECTION! Bonnet uses a naturalistic approach (amazing and poignant, considering it was shot on a micro-budget) with some nice camerawork from Cristian Carretero. Subtlety has its benefits…

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OLD MOON

The family dynamic gets a serious look-see in "Luna Vieja (Old Moon)" from Puerto Rican-born, NYU-trained director-writer-(co)producer Raisa Bonnet, who...

BRADFORD-HALIFAX-LONDON

A forever (well, for most of this 9-minute short, at least) bickering couple are captured in this one-shot film from writer-directer Francis Carson Lee....

MILK AND BLOOD

There's a sly hand at work in Markus Englmair's new short. The darkness lurking about a bleak, rain-soaked Icelandic dairy farm involves an obstinate,...

TRAUMA

A cute, adequately diverting black-and-white (shot on Kodak film) horror short courtesy of a filmmaking student at Wesleyan University. A thesis film....

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GOLDBERG & EISENBERG

When a bespectacled computer-geek randomly encounters a sloppily attired wiseguy, the results are earth shattering---and not in a good way. Oren Carmi’s...

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WHAT I HATE ABOUT MYSELF

If you think American game shows are vapid, then consider a Chinese program where a group of young women compete to win free cosmetic surgery that will...

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JIM MORRIS: LIFELONG FITNESS

In 1973, Jim Morris captured the Mr. America bodybuilding championship by the largest winning point margin ever recorded. His victory made him the oldest...

WE KEEP ON DANCING

The lovingly preserved Volkswagen Beetle that arrives, deathly ill, to a small car repair shop, belies all the cylinders that this adorable Australian...

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THE CHAPERONE 3D

Filmmaker Fraser Munden takes a cue from the Oscar-nominated Israeli film “Waltz with Bashir” in crafting this documentary that incorporates recordings...

NOT FUNNY

The cautionary fable "No Tiene Gracia (Not Funny)" is a darkly comic blend of something Aesop might have served up back in ancient Greece, combined with a...

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