Film
Sundance's Documentary Shorts Offer Brief but Powerful Glimpses Around the World
The festival's program is especially robust this year, featuring films about the Hong Kong protests, abortion helpline volunteers, and more.
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Film
The Best Experimental Shorts at the Toronto International Film Festival
The festival's vaunted Wavelengths section features films about different concepts of performance.
Film
The Signature Themes in Abbas Kiarostami's Masterful Short Films
The IFC Center is running the largest retrospective to date of Abbas Kiarostami’s work, and its short film program is full of the director's masterfully rendered trademarks.
Film
Women Directors Take Risks in New Genre Shorts
The latest edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival continued its trend of elevating female filmmakers.
Film
From a Suicidal Sheriff to a Scrappy Sandpiper, a Look at the 2017 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts
The five films nominated for this year's Academy Award for the best animated short film use a range of animation and storytelling styles to shuttle characters and viewers across time and space.
Art
The Unsettling Art of Making Hyperrealistic Baby Dolls
A new short documentary shows Kate Charles, a sculptor who crafts elaborate and hyperrealistic babies known as "Reborn Dolls," at work.
Art
The Dying Typographic Art of Cutting Letters into Steel
In a smoky atelier in Torino, Italy, Giuseppe Branchino works as one of the world’s last punch cutters.
Art
Picasso and Matisse Trade Blows in a Cubism vs. Fauvism Bar Brawl
Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse were the 20th century’s greatest artistic frenemies.
News
Sleek New Short by the FBI Warns of Chinese Espionage
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has inspired countless hours of television and cinema, from X-Files to Silence of the Lambs.
Art
With the Help of Prosthetics and Psychics, a Photographer Dramatizes His Possible Fates
After photographer Phil Toledano experienced both the sudden death of his mother and the slower, drawn out demise of his father, he became obsessed with his own potential futures.
Art
The Tribeca Film Festival's Short Forays into Art
The art-centric short films at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival include two documentaries about very unusual artists, an enigmatic science-fiction drama, and a ballet set in a Parisian housing project.
Art
A Brief Look at 2015 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Shorts
The youngest of the three Oscar shorts categories, documentary shorts are both the vigorous upstarts and the weary middle-agers, questioning themselves and their creative vision in a productive midlife crisis.