Kamal navigates the rocky terrain of parties that never quite reach their potential in this video by London-based director Milo Blake (previously featured here). Visually mimicking a Google Earth style glimpse into the events below, “About the Party” follows our deadpan narrator through a series of vignettes that could just as easily be ending as getting started.

Director: Milo Blake
Production Company: EM Films
Producer: Jordi Estape
Production Manager: Oliver Hill
DOP: Rhys Warren
1st AC: Ethan Lodge
1st AD: Sam Roffey
Art Director: Jorge Higgins
Grip: Toby Buchan
Casting: Cameron Culver
Editor: Arthur Parisi
Grader: Lena Turnier
VFX: Renato Solca
Kit: Pro Cam
Runner: Jamie Tarr
Gaffer: Sam Baker

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Beautiful video for Pure X by Texas-based director Guicho Flores. A visual homage to Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn and French filmmaker Robert Bresson, “Slip Away” is about being caught in the limbo between light and shadow, love and fear:

“Between presence and absence there’s a path to walk. This passage is where love exists, as it needs absence to breathe in and out.”

Directed by Guicho Flores
Starring Lauren Withrow
Photography by Zach Morrison
Assistant Camera by Tiger Hill
Additional Photography by E.J. Enriquez
Art direction by Jillian Solotes
Wardrobe by Sarah Nation
Scouting by Andres Rodriguez
Titles by Panama Studio

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The personal and the political collide unexpectedly in this thought-provoking short by Norwegian writer and director Mattis Ohana Goksøyr. “Safiyyah” tells the story of a Danish-Palestinian boy whose casual fling with a girl he meets at an Oslo nightclub comes to an abrupt halt when he leans that she is Jewish. Rather than weighing in on who is right or wrong, the film raises the issue of cultural inheritance and how it can affect those living far away from the conflict itself.

Writer & Director: Mattis Ohana Goksøyr
Starring Arian Kashef, Ragnhild Meling Enoksen & Gorm Grømer
Producers: Henrik Dyb Zwart & Mattis Ohana Goksøyr
DoP: Benjamin Mosli
Camera operator: Øyvind Svanes Lunde
Camera assistant: Dovydas Miliauskas
Gaffer: Jon André Haakvåg
Edit: Tormod Berge
Sound design: Andreas Waag Martinsen
Set-sound: Helge Bodøgaard
Grader: Raymond Gangstad
Composer: Magnus Bonesmo
Set design: Marie Eckhoff Owing
Stylist: Wenche Luther
Graphic Design: Maja Hyggen
Script Consultant: Mads Sjøgård Pettersen

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A lovely short about the struggle for self-acceptance and healing from the past by London-based filmmaker Jacob Sutton. Choreography by Ryan Heffington (previously featured here).

Featuring
Cody Copley
Kyle Coffman
Ryan Heffington
Ken Roht
Grant Gilmore
Brian Jones
Jessica Di Girolamo
Jimmy Genovesi
Erica Klein
Latonya Swann
Chelsea Maria Hough

A Film by Jacob Sutton
Produced by Brandon Zagha
Associate Producer: Danielle Oexmann
Choreographed by Ryan Heffington
Director of Photography: Tristan Sheridan
Production Design: Tom Thurnauer
Costume Design: Tracey Nicholson
Make Up: Jo Strettell
Hair: Preston Wada & Nathaniel Dezan
Gaffer: John Nadeau
Key Grip: Eric Mutz
AC: Mike Blauvelt
DIT: Nathan Pena
Editor: Ruth Hegarty
Music Composition: Shervin Shaeri
Sound Effects: String and Tins
Colorist: Jack McGinty
Post Production: Time Based Arts
Music: Pretenders – ‘Middle of the road’
Music Supervision: HiNote
Special Thanks to Adrienne Weiss
Kelly and Paul Fulton
Creative Partner Claire Fulton

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A simple job takes an ugly turn in this video for Chilean producer Barretso by Paris-based director Annabelle Rodicq (previously featured here). “Alright” follows two young men on a late night mission to retrieve a mysterious package from a grocery store.

Starring Guillaume Duhesme & Nicolas Girard-Michelotti
Directed by Annabelle Rodicq
Producer: Annabelle Rodicq
Production Assistant: Emma Séméria
DOP: Giovanni Quene
1st AC: Octave Maria
2nd AC: Charles Droudun-Moosmayr
Drone operator: Robin Lagaf
Gaffer: Julien Rabia
Logistics: Rémy Bernard
Driver: Alain Rodicq
MUA: Mélissa Landron
Grocer: Alexandre Lebienheureux
Aggressor 1: Jérémie Pernin
Aggressor 2: Dimitri Coudray
Editor: Annabelle Rodicq
Assistant Editor: Enzo Chanteux
Assistant Editor: Francisco Cofré
Grading: Valentin Damon
Mastering: Black Vitamina

This video was submitted by Annabelle Rodicq and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

Nice raw look and feel to this video for KeiyaA’s track “I! Gits! Weary!” by Brooklyn-based director Ryosuke Tanzawa (previously featured here).

Director: Ryosuke Tanzawa
Cinematographer: Doug Durant
Camera Operator: Jeffrey Clanet
Producer: Sean Gordon-Loebl
Production Support: Naavin Karimbux, Caroline Waxse
Colorist: Brennan Barsell
Wardrobe: Becky Akinyode
Makeup: Meredith Menchel
Hair: Andrita Renee
Special thanks to The Jazzy Jumpers

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A grim yet visually stunning short from Liverpool-born filmmaker Daniel Boocock of Claret and Blue. “The Neolith” tells the story of a mysterious individual who stands up against a pack of bloodthirsty outsiders. Set in an unspecified time and place, the film explores themes of identity and human psychology, as Boocock states:

“The inspiration behind it came from many things, my own creative instinct being the primary influence. Though aspects of mysticism, Jungian theories of the shadow self and Gnosticism all play their part as does the physicality of the landscape in which The Neolith is set. All these aspects mirror certain conflicts and dynamics within the human psyche. The Neolith is not defined to one specific time. Some have interpreted it as being set in the past, others believe it is set in the future or a different realm entirely. Though certain drives within the films individual characters can be recognized regardless of time or place. ‘Too much animal distorts the civilized man’ wrote Jung ‘too much civilization makes sick animals.’”

Cast:
Jak Corrie
Dan Boie Kratfeldt
Nanna Lyhne Andersen
Jacob Skyggebjerg
Jesper Møller
Lasse Voss
Macy & Bradley Weeder

Writer, Director & Producer: Daniel Boocock
Cinematographer: Andrew Schonfelder
Production Design: Caleb Rogers
Costume Design: Stephanie O’hara
Props Master: Simon Stubbs
Sound Design: Sam Auguste
Composer: Danhiem
Sound Recordist: Phil Hartley
Production Coordinator: Shaun Barry
Editor: Daniel Boocock
Colourist & VFX: Andrew Schonfelder
VFX: Roman De Guili
Makeup & Prosthetic Design: Martin Hansen
Makeup Artist: Ainhoa Negro Puls
Prosthetics Assistant: Lilli Thavapee Tollerup
Prosthetics Assistant: Claudemyr Barata
Prosthetics Assistant: Lucia Katharina Kallan
Prosthetics Assistant: Freja Riise
First Assistant Camera: Kevin Grossett
Second Assistant Camera: Laura Buchanan
Drone & MOVI Operation: Martin Osborne
Additional Drone Footage: John Duncan
Vocal Coach: Helle Thun
Unit Transport: Peter Rosenfeld
Linguist: Tom Grant
Production Insurance: WK Film Insurance

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A lovely dance piece about the desires that wear us down by Warsaw-based director Magdalena Zielinska. Starring dancers Anita Sawicka and Piotr Simba Abramowicz, “You Wanted Rivers” explores the feeling of endless dissatisfaction — of never getting what we want or never being happy with what we get — that can lead us down risky paths and keep us forever thirsty.

Dancers: Anita Sawicka & Piotr Simba Abramowicz
Director: Magdalena Zielinska
DOP: Mateusz Kanownik
Edit: Mateusz Kanownik, Magdalena Zielinska
Sound Design: Wojciech Pawluczuk / Grenade Sound Studio
Color: Piotr Putko
Music: Dictaphone – Opening Night
Water Drumming – Baka Women / courtesy of Global Music Exchange
Special thanks: creative tools

This video was submitted by Magdalena Zielinska and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!

San Francisco-based director Ivan Cash tells the story of a third-generation sharecropper named Jay Allen Glaspy. A descendant of slaves, Glaspy was ‘born in the cotton fields’ and worked in them until he got married at the age of 19 and set out for New Jersey. While Glaspy’s continued to face racial prejudice throughout his life, his story is one of unwavering devotion in the face of adversity and hope for the future.

Produced by Cash Studios
Made Possible by Unfinished
Director: Ivan Cash
Executive Producer: Melissa Abe
DP: Jamal Solomon
Line Producer: Malikkah Rollins
Editor: Ivan Cash
Composer: Lee Falco
AD: Louie Jimena
AC: Alexandra Bock
Gaffer: Alvin Adadevoh
PA: Cole Heller
DIT: Jono Bernstein
Sound Design: Lee Falco
Assistant Editor: Lucy Adams
Color: Alexia Salingaros

Special Thanks:
Josh Alexander, Chris Barley, Blake Bogosian, Alex Campbell, Jos Diaz, Carla Fernandez, Brian Glaspy, Doris Glaspy, Jaqueline Long, Kenny Myers, Michael Reiner, Rinee Shah, Jameelah Tucker, Rodney Cruz Pizarro

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Incredible performances in this contemporary response to D.W. Griffith’s 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation by New York City-based directors and choreographers Amadi ‘Baye’ Washington and Sam ‘Asa’ Pratt (aka Baye & Asa). Griffith’s film is a veneration of the KKK, painting the Klan as saviours of a white race in danger as American culture and politics begin to shift after the Civil War. It highlights a fundamental White supremacist delusion that continues to plague this country: that White people are inherently superior, and that they are politically and culturally under attack. “Second Seed” grapples with this White delusion.

Cast:
AJ Tasley Parr
Amadi Baye Washington
Marla Phelan
Myssi Robinson
Sam Asa Pratt

Directed & Choreographed by Baye & Asa
Edited by Baye & Asa
Production & Music: Jack Grabow
Cinematography: Alan Jensen
Technical Director: David Bull

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A traditional hand drawn animation for Dana Gavanski’s cover of “I Talk To The Wind” by Milan-based artist Gaia Alari (previously featured here). Using a purely analog technique, Alari recreates a 70s vibe of pastel pink to accompany the black and white palette and film like effect.

A theatrical opera unfolds between heaven and hell in this fully animated video for Joji by  Brooklyn-based director and artist Saad Moosajee (previously featured here). Narrated through a series of otherworldly vignettes that echo living chiaroscuro paintings, “777” is a dance driven display featuring agents of the afterlife conversing through movement. The film was created in quarantine using an experimental combination of realtime motion capture and hundreds of animated lights, click here to check out the making-of.

Directed by Saad Moosajee
Production Company: Pomp&Clout
Executive Producer: Ryen Bartlett
Head of Production: Kevin Staake
Producer: Russell Greene
Visual Effects Supervisor: James Bartolozzi
Lead Design & Animation: Saad Moosajee
Lead Design & Animation: Zuheng Yin
Design & Animation: Chanyu Chen
Dance & Choreography: Maya Man
Storyboard: Zhoutong Qi
Asset Design: JD Gardner
Costume Design: Chanyu Chen
Concept Design: Zhoutong Qi

Swordfish
Houdini Artist: Dan Clark
Houdini Artist: Tatsuma Nakano
Producer: Danielle Karstetter

Typography: Min Kim
Texture Painting: Jenny Mascia
Rigging TD: Lee Wolland
CG Generalists: Piotr Gabinsky, Henry Hilaire Jr
Render Support: Kyle Doris

Silver Spoon – Motion Capture
Virtual Production TD: Mahe Dewan
Performance Capture Supervisor: Peter Collazo
Managing Director: Dan Pack
Exec Producer: Laura Herzing
DIT: Kazim Karaismailoglu

Special Thank you!
Epic Games
Alistair Thompson

Vayner Productions
Laura Shea

This video was submitted by Saad Moosajee and selected by our team. Click here if you have a project you’d like us to check out!