Festival Spotlights… Festival Spotlight: RIDM 2021 1 Dec 202128 Sep 2023 Short Ends had the pleasure to attend (in-person & virtually) the latest edition of the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaires de Montréal (RIDM). Although the festival has come and gone, these…
Into the Digital Age A screenlife Asian-American story 1 Nov 20211 Nov 2021 In 2015, the release of Unfriended (Levan Gabriadze, 2014) had forever changed the world of genre cinema. Timur Bekmambetov started the concept of Screenlife filmmaking, which is basically a movie…
Into the Digital Age An Argument for the Loser’s Side: Physical Media in a Digital Age 1 Nov 202131 Oct 2021 “Video stores like mine have been crushed and forgotten about for the last ten years!” Having been born in the year 1995, I am a part of a group of…
Into the Digital Age The Collective Spectacle of Chris Chan: A Comprehensive History 1 Nov 202131 Oct 2021 CW: Sexual violence. A/N: There is significant discourse and confusion surrounding Chris Chan’s pronouns. For this article, I choose to use ‘they/them’, even though Chris identifies as a trans woman.…
Into the Digital Age Reconfiguring Mental Illness & Identity in Serial Experiments Lain 1 Nov 202124 Feb 2022 CW: Suicide. I don’t need to stay in a place like this. If you stay in a place like this… you might not be able to connect. Serial Experiments Lain…
Into the Digital Age Lost futures, false binaries, and romance in the digital age: The Matrix Reloaded 1 Nov 202125 Feb 2022 The Matrix Reloaded (Lana and Lilly Wachowski, 2003), the follow-up to the Wachowski sisters’ instant classic The Matrix (1999), opens with an ominous nightmare. Much like the first film, the…
Into the Digital Age Personal Footage v. Archive: Digital Footprints and Documentary 1 Nov 202131 Oct 2021 A couple of weeks ago, before I started writing this piece, I stumbled upon a realization. I was outside of my workplace, in one of the rare short breaks I…
Festival Spotlights… Festival Spotlight: FNC 2021 31 Oct 202128 Sep 2023 Short Ends had the pleasure to attend (in-person & virtually) the latest edition of the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC). Although the festival has come and gone, these are six films that…
Small Town Stories Hope Shines Brightest Beneath the Lights 1 Sep 20211 Sep 2021 Watching the climactic championship football game which closes out 2004’s Friday Night Lights (Peter Berg), I found myself sucked into the outcome of this battle. The Odessa Permian Panthers, our…
Small Town Stories Only Dogs go to Heaven 1 Sep 202130 Aug 2021 In the small town of La Boca, Chile, where there seems to be nothing but a handful of residences by the seaside, one of the houses stands out from the…
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