Short films fascinate me. Though their stories are often more intimate, the best shorts feel as conceptually grand as the best feature films.
After watching (and now reviewing) all of the Oscar-nominated short films for 2010, I hope more people seek out short films in the future. Films like The Door are just as powerful and moving as anything you’ll likely see in theaters, which is an accomplishment for a film that’s less than 17 minutes long.
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Austin’s annual SouthBySouthwest gathering brings together film, music, art and technology for a few weeks of screenings, concerts and parties. Most people know SXSW as a music festival, but it’s just as big a film event, with hundreds of films and shorts playing all across the city.
One of the shorts chosen to play at the 2010 fest is writer/director Jack Daniel Stanley’s Depth of Phil.
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