“The Lost Pen” is a moving docudrama about journalists pushed out of their native lands. The filmmaker Beraat Gökkuş has firsthand knowledge of the subject. A Turkish director and journalist, he has lived in exile in Paris since 2016. The fourteen-and-a-half minute, single-shot film will be distributed in 2022, but the trailer does a fine…
read more →The essence of the Hero’s journey is the valuable gift that the protagonist brings back for the rest of us. While the hero often has astonishing experiences—think of Odysseus meeting the Sirens and the Cyclops—such events aren’t required as we see in Yasuyuki Kubota’s “Old Man and Tokyo.” The old man in this movie wins…
read more →Four centuries ago Shakespeare observed that “All the world’s a stage.” Now, the Los Angeles-based band Somersault Queen updates Shakespeare’s observation. In their new music video “In the Midst of Conversation,” the band treats the world as a stage for its song lyrics. This clever animated music video spotlights words in all sorts of locations…
read more →In 2019, Taiwanese director Liao Ming-Yi’s “Parking” won the Grand Prize in the FiLMiC Pro Mobile Film Festival. That 4-minute drama was about a doctor suffering from OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Now Liao is back with “I Weirdo,” a feature-length love story about two people with OCD. According to Variety, this is “the first Asian fiction feature to…
read more →“Ball” is a fine example of a movie “ripped from today’s headlines.” In six intense minutes, it tells the story of a young Nigerian kid who dreams of playing basketball. Starting out as a total novice, the boy comes to understand the game by studying the moves off Kobe Bryant. Then, when Bryant dies, the…
read more →London-based mobile moviemaker Rob Leach says that one of his big goals is “to make quirky films that people can relate to.” A perfect example is his latest short “Caterpillar,” which (spoiler alert) asks the question: “Is there a way out of having a 9-to-5 job?” In an interview (below), Leach takes us behind the…
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