Category: Short Films

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  Portrait Of A Young Girl At The End Of The 60s In Brussels (1994)

  February 19, 2023

  1990s, Arthouse Cinema, Drama, Existential, Feminist, French Cinema, Short Films, Teen Movies, TV Movie

  Shot for French TV during the nineties, Portrait Of A Young Girl At The End Of The 60s In Brussels (1994) is directed and written by Chantal Akerman, and feels semi-autobiographical. As the title indicates, Akerman sets the story in 1968 but isn’t too concerned about fidelity to the era; you can see CDs in… Read.

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  Lux Aeterna (2019)

  December 27, 2020

  2010s, Arthouse Cinema, Comedy, Drama, French Cinema, Movies About Filmmaking, Short Films, Stoner Movies

  I really loved Gaspar Noe’s Climax, a movie I watched on NYE 2018 and clicked with me more than Noe’s previous provocations like Irreversible or Enter The Void. His most recent production is a short art film, Lux Aeterna (2019), was produced by fashion line Saint Laurent, which exists I guess as corporate synergy to… Read.

• Uncle Yanco (1967)

  June 24, 2020

  1960s, Biopic, Comedy, Documentary, French Cinema, San Francisco, Short Films

  Thank you to Mubi’s ‘Voila Varda’ segment, which sadly expired on their Library feature, and to Lyndon Blue for recommending Uncle Yanco (1967), a short film that Agnes Varda made while she was in San Francisco (while her husband Jacques Demy was making Model Shop). It’s basically a colourful, warm tribute to Agnes connecting with… Read.