Category: Short
FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: ‘Faulty Roots’ creator Ella Greenwood
Ella Greenwood is the writer, actor, director of the short film Faulty Roots which is due to become a feature film in 2021. The film…
FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Troubled Water (Elena Wiener)
Trübes Wasser (Troubled Water), is a short film written, directed, and animated by Elena Wiener. Even from the first frame, the imagery used is striking:…
Short Film Review: Faulty Roots (2020)
For anyone who is living with depression, arguably the only thing worse than coping with mental illness is the lack of understanding from anyone who…
LFF Review: Courtney Hope Thérond’s new short film ‘Rehearsal’
Courtney Hope Thérond has routinely proven herself a cunning filmmaker, one who can deliver the rawness of intimate human interaction in a closed space. Her…
Can the Pixar Shorts Solve Life’s Problems?
Most moviegoers were delighted by the recent Disney/Pixar release, Toy Story 4. It was a classic Pixar film with huge heart, beautiful animation and plenty…
Arrival: Exclusive Interview with Director Aurora Fearnley and Composer Mike Ladouceur on the New Sci-Fi Short 'Pulsar'
At last year’s Femme Filmmakers Festival, the short sci-fi film from Aurora Fearnley, Pulsar, was on the out-of-competition line-up pre-release. Now, the brilliant little movie…
Anna Radchenko, Kokosmos
On April 12th, Russia celebrated something called Cosmonautics Day. Commemorating the very day that Yuri Gagarin achieved First Man in Space status, in 1961. I…
10 Days of Krzysztof Kieślowski: Documentaries and Shorts 1966-1980
Wednesday 13th March 2019 will mark 23 years since the passing of one of cinema’s greatest film-makers – and one who deserved that tag without…
Film Short Review: Collapsology
The restrictions of time can often make things difficult for filmmakers. But director Daria Geller has proven herself extremely talented at dealing with this challenge…
Directed by Women September: Shot – Meshes of the Afternoon
Surrealism has always been a major part of cinema since its inception. It is quite a surreal thing to see moving two-dimensional images being projected…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Morgan Gruer’s Reflections
Reflections, is an astonishing, stunning 2D animated film composed of approximately 1,100 individual drawings. It’s an absolute delight to watch, and will leave the viewer awestruck….
Have a heart: Exlcusive interview with Kevin Sluder & Jennifer Sluder about Heartless
We got the opportunity to speak to Kevin Sluder (one half of Los Angeles based Sunshine Boy Productions’ award winning team along with his wife,…
Unseen – Call for Support
Here at Filmotomy we like to promote new and emerging talent, and films from female, LGBT and minority directors, the films that don’t get enough…
Let's Dance: Review of Jean Claude Billmaier's Nulla
According to historical records, in 1518 there was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace, in the Holy Roman Empire. Where approximately…
