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Equal parts innocence and darkness, Patrick Smith's independent works, as he often remarks, question the lines of identity and emotion. While his characters always transcend their fears and obsessions, they jump high emotional...
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From the first frames of any Frank Mosley short, there’s an immediate mark that the world is one of an actor’s director. The influence of theater and the relationship of actors within a given space molds cinema that feels as ...
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There's an overall feel of enthusiastic energy tempered by a calm professionalism at the Atlanta Underground Film Festival. It's low-key, low-fi and harkens to the idealism of college.

SM Contributing Writer Justin Barber sends dispatch from the HollyShorts Short Film Festival, which ran at Cinespace August 10-12.

Commenting on the Catholic dichotomy of woman as whore and saint, Bryan Root's Dirty Habit briefly enters territories of inspired nuance but primarily suffers from its lack of narrative originality.

Filmmaker Anna Biller's debut feature Viva, a play on 1970s sexplotation films with a twist of modern feminist commentary, is, to put it kindly, a shock to the senses.

With Moonlight & Magic filmmaker Timothy Spanos's has successfully made three types films into one unsuccessful whole.

A disturbing glimpse of physical and psychological prowess, Inza's White Blue Air reveals a primitive underbelly to the progress of man.

With its pastiche of images and strictly-crafted storytelling, Neil Ira Needleman's Last Request embodies the feel of an oral history, a throwback to a campfire era of narrative discovery.

Elina Shatkin's Everything I Know About Drugs I Learned From Hollywood offers welcome reprieve with humor and kitsch to the area of experimental filmmaking.

While undoubtedly indulgent at times, Eva-Marie Elg's Recognize Myself, a study of the intersection of visuals and the written word told through the eyes of a depressive, shows early promi...
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In honor of Frank V. Ross' Hohokam Thursday, August 30 premiere in New York, SM offers a brief recap of the feature story we ran on the film this past April.

The Reeler's S.T. VanAirsdale offers up some humorous news briefs, checks in with filmmaker Joe Swanberg and talks to Spout.com's Karina Longworth about Frank V. Ross' Hohokam and Quietly on by as well as Kentucker Audley's Team...
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Film journalist Anthony Kaufman, writing for The Village Voice takes a look at the New York art-house scene, or rather the increasing lack thereof.

Jon Lynn's Flying Dead Birds:

In the last three days, filmmaker Sujewa Ekanayake has kicked up a bit of much-needed uproar about diversity in the indie filmmaking, distribution and media scenes.

In a September 2005 interview, animator Jim Trainor speaks with F News about Harmony, a short that recently screened at the Atlanta Underground Film Festival.