Aether: Prologue
Have you ever fallen in love with a world at first sight? That’s the idea behind Aether: Prologue, a proof of concept film from Frame 29 Films. Although the creators are hoping to impress a studio...
View ArticlePandora Cinematheque – Two Short Films For Your Lunchtime
Good day! This week we’re bringing you not one, but two delightful, two-dimensional little films – The Deep and Nimbus Machina. Let’s delve in. Akin to the style of shadow-puppetry, Nimbus Machina...
View ArticlePandora Cinematheque: The Backwater Gospel
If you enjoy frontier-western style ambiance, gratuitous mob violence and old-timey religious revivalism, then this film is for you. The Undertaker is coming to town, but whose corpse does he intend...
View ArticlePandora Cinematheque: The Maker
“A strange creature races against time to make the most important and beautiful creation of his life.” The Maker is a captivating, multi award-winning stop-motion animation set in a one-room world, in...
View ArticlePandora Cinematheque: The Lady ParaNorma
Vincent Marcone is talented artist who creates hauntingly beautiful artwork which he showcases on his website, My Pet Skeleton. In 2013 he expanded his repertoire by writing and directing a short film...
View ArticlePandora Cinematheque: Paths of Hate
“Paths of Hate is a short tale about the demons that slumber deep in the human soul and have the power to push people into the abyss of blind hate, fury and rage.” Paths of Hate seems at first to be a...
View ArticlePandora Cinematheque – Ambition
‘Ambition‘, starring Aiden Gillen from Game of Thrones, not only succeeds as a stunning piece of public relations work to vividly showcase the incredible 2014 Rosetta deep-space mission, but also as a...
View ArticleSoar: An Animated Short Film Airship Adventure
Soar is one of those magical animated short films that demonstrate more storytelling ability than a feature film. It tells the fantastical tale of a young girl who befriends a tiny boy pilot who’s...
View ArticlePandora Cinematheque – The Gunfighter
Somewhere in the wild west frontier, a lone, weary gunman stumbles into the wrong saloon, where a mysterious god-like narrator holds sway over the miscreant, sinful occupants… oh, and it also stars...
View ArticlePandora Cinematheque – Vampires From Mars?
When you’re a drunk at a small-time bar somewhere in Texas, you’d think nothing of a smooth-tongued, clean shaven, irritatingly friendly young man who tries to tell you a story. That is, until he buys...
View ArticlePandora Cinematheque – Alma
An innocent young girl discovers a strange and mysterious toy shop with a curiously familiar doll in the window… This 2009 film draws on many fairy tale themes when the unassuming young child is lured...
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