A comprehensive collection of reviews featured on Talking Shorts in the past.
Through an experimental film essay, filmmaker Coline Confort aims to capture the “rupture and repair” of a relationship.
Mulika is a perfect example of Africanfuturism, reconnecting local African heritage to the optimism inherent to Black contemporary sci-fi tales.
The Sower of Stars strongly evocates meditative practices, as Lois Patiño yearns for moments of rest, inner peace and undisguised self-reflection.
In her debut film, Maria Estela Paiso presents a walk down memory lane as a horror show. The end of the world is nigh and frogs are raining down from the sky.
Haig Aivazian's most daring leap into the world of film and a cogent attempt to tie together his interests through the form of found footage.
In her kaleidoscopic experimental film, Yuyan Wang both eulogises and critiques a society which is drowning in an overload of information.
The Killing of Čáhcerávga is not one, but five films. Each a manifesto, these films—like chapters in a book—form a cross-section of questions and statements on indigeneity, otherness, and longing.
Randa Maroufi offers a look through the cracks of a social issue that usually remains underexposed. Her radical formalistic choices might simplify the problem for the greater good, yet never lose sight of the individual tragedies.
Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis’ Maalbeek—part collage film, part experimental video art—challenges the documentary genre.
In Operation Jane Walk, the Austrian filmmaking duo Leonhard Müllner and Robin Klengel present us with a piece of history in spatial planning, while cleverly marking the virtual as an extension of the historical.
Cross-referencing politics and body politics, reproduction and pandemics, Isadora Neves Marques creates a juxtaposition between a warning dystopia and a dangerous reality.
Jorge Jácome presents time in an associative series of hypnotic rêveries—an ode to the past so bittersweet that we have to be repelled from it at one point.
The female dance group JUCK performs in public spaces. By scratching between their legs, the dancers reveal patterns of male dominance. Unfortunately, this film depicts their feminist activism as solely female.
