Director and Writer Sonia Estévez’s short stop motion film is a beautiful depiction of the life span of the normal woman and how she perceives their existence as a whole. The idea of the normal woman being depicted as some one living on strings is a fascinating bit of symbolism. Over the course of ten minutes, the animation depicts her as someone being held up by strings who seeks independence almost immediately.
Tag Archives: Indie Film
Gunfighter Paradise (2024)
Recently selected to the 2024 RiverRun Film Festival.
Like a Southern fried “Donnie Darko,” writer/director Jethro Waters’s darkly comic dissection of America and masculinity is truly one of the most unique and bizarre dark comedies to come out of the independent circuit. I don’t think audiences are ready for what someone like Waters has in store, placing America’s current social climate up to a big lens and lending some insight in to the lunacy of it all, and how the lunacy has become the new norm.
Interview with Filmmaker Austin Kase
Austin Kase is an award-winning writer, director, and editor of short and feature films, music videos, and commercials who has recently directed the horror short “Hide Your Crazy.” The romance horror comedy and allegory for mental illness awareness has been doing well at various festivals and the up and coming filmmaker takes time out to discuss film and his love for horror.
Interview with Up and Coming Director Sarah Young
Sarah Young is a brave new voice in the film world bringing to the forefront socially volatile commentary as well as genuine scares. With “Not Him,” the genuinely talented filmmaker directs a horror film that works as a taut allegory for domestic abuse. “Not Him” is now making the rounds in various festivals and Ms. Young took time out to speak with us.
Not Him (2023)
Director/Writer Sarah Young commits to what is a great horror thriller that many fans will likely connect with big time. “Not Him” is a tense and anxiety ridden horror thriller that works very well in mixing in horror with what too many have experienced in their lifetime. I was very much enamored with how many themes and the sense of ambiguity that Writer/Director Sarah Young is able to integrate through to the very end.
Hide Your Crazy (2023)
Director Austin Kase’s short horror romance is a premise teeming with feature potential. I could have literally watched two hours of this back and forth between the two characters stuck in this tragic romance. “Hide Your Crazy” is a film very much in the vein of “My Demon Lover” channeling a lot of that late 1980’s camp and genre mixing amounting to some top tier entertainment all around.
Printer Head (2023)
Director Frances McIlvain’s short horror film turns the work environment in to a veritable hellscape, lensing his film very much in the vein of early David Lynch. Filmed through very murky black and white, “Printer Head” watches like an office drones bad dream and it never stops being a royal mind fuck.