Make that a very, very dark comedy. In fact, Joel Perlgut’s “Sad Sachs”—which took the top prize at the Smartfone Flick Fest 2019—is about as dark as a comedy can get…while still being hilarious. The director even gets laughs out of a neo-Nazi sequence that Lenny Bruce probably would have loved. At SF3, the nine-minute…
read more →Artists have long created pictures narrating events great and small. For example, thousands of years ago, anonymous cave dwellers drew images about animals they encountered. In the eleventh century, weavers continued that narrative tradition with the 70-meters-long Bayeux Tapestry, which documented the Norman conquest of England. A celebrated twentieth century example is Picasso’s “Guernica.” Now, Iranian…
read more →The main message of “Snowbrawl” is obvious: the iPhone 11 Pro features a terrific movie camera. No surprise given that Apple paid for the 94-second action movie (aka commercial), which has attracted plenty of attention: 21,743,028 views as of December 2. But there’s a subtler lesson here, namely that finding stories doesn’t require exotic locations or…
read more →When we see a movie that we love, many of us find that a “making of” video enhances our appreciation of the work. The same phenomenon applies with oil painting, as we see in SJ van Breda’s “Jane Digby,” a short documentary about a noted South African artist. This beautiful behind the scenes video reveals…
read more →Alfred Tennyson’s poem “In Memoriam” argues that ‘Tis better to have loved and lost,/ Than never to have loved at all.” But there is another possibility. In their deeply moving love story “The Meeting,” Italian filmmakers Clara Congera & Sigfrido Giammona suggest that memory can make it possible for us to keep love alive. The…
read more →How much complexity can you build into a four minute movie? Plenty, as we see in “Connection” directed by Russian filmmaker Pavel Goncharov. A finalist in the 2019 FiLMiC Pro Fest, this comedic tear-jerker includes a painful romantic break-up, infidelity, new love, and loneliness. The plot rests on coincidence, a phenomenon that most people experience…
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