ShortEnd Magazine

During the course of the past two days, the Sundance Film Festival released its feature lineup. Check out the slate.

“It ain’t me babe, it ain’t me you’re looking for, babe.” In episode 19, Lily and Brooklyn Gang co-founder Rick Sayre review the highly anticipated, entirely unconventional Bob Dylan biopic, Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There. Listen in as they attempt to find some semblance of a storyline in the m...
Read More >>

SM Editor Noralil Ryan Fores explores how it is she's become a Joe Swanberg apologist.

The rawness of LOL would be appealing if it wasn't so boring. The conversations are flat and expressionless, and the characters inspire little empathy. The guys' online activities are exercises in narcissism. Any pathos lies with the girls, whose sad desperation is palpable: Tim...
Read More >>

This is Jeremy Phillips. "I care about it passionately, the medium," he says. That medium, of course, being film. A University of Southern California graduate, Phillips worked with Naveen Singh on the short 27,000 Days, helping his do-it-all filmmaking friend hone his vision of the exp...
Read More >>

With both his shorts Orphans and 27,000 Days, Naveen Singh plays with the experimental narrative, molding it this way and that to settle in some raw emotion, a conceit that pulls him as far away from the intellectual as his work is inherently that. Where in Or...
Read More >>