HORROR SHORT FILMS - 4
Seraphim by Kip Kubin (2014) (USA) (4m) *
Written and directed by Kip Kubin, the visually stunning Seraphim was a finalist in the 8th FILMSshort competition. It is a simple sci-fi story set in a dystopian world, which is being overrun by unknown creatures. We find one of the survivors living alone in a caravan but on the lookout for any of those frightening aliens. Can he really defend himself against one or is he and the world doomed? You can see competition winners here.
Alma by Rodrigo Blaas (2009) (US/Spain) (6m) *
Written and directed by Rodrigo Blaas, a Spanish animator who has worked on brilliant Pixar features such as Wall-E and Up, Alma is something close to an animation horror! Alma is an angelic little girl who is writing her name on a wall when she spies a doll in a shop window that looks exactly like her. She enters the empty shop. The doll keeps moving but Alma is determined to get her hands on it... Alma won the Best Animation award at the LA Shorts Fest.
The Stairway by Alex Torterotot (2011) (France) (4m) *
The Stairway (L'Escalier) was our Summer 2011 Competition winner. Alexandra Torterotot is a French filmmaker based in New York although The Stairway (L'Escalier) was shot in her native Paris. Written by Sylvain Aubert-Garmendia, The Stairway is a simple and nightmarish story of a man who cannot escape a never-ending but always changing series of stairways. When not making shorts, Alexandra had been working as a script supervisor and on feature projects.
A Message From Fallujah by R. Gibson (2005) (Australia) (15m)
A Message From Fallujah, co-written by Shane Briant and its director, Richard Gibson, won several awards on the short film festival circuit, playing particularly well in North America. Set in war-torn Iraq, A Message From Fallujah centres on Daniel Crane, an American civilian engineer who is kidnapped by an extremist group of militia. In an impossible situation, he manages to escape his captives but finds himself in a nightmarish realm outside his prison.
