Short Film

High Lonesome Plains is about Hayden Pedigo – a musician, performance artist, politician and model from Amarillo, Texas. Homeschooled from an early age, Hayden found community and inspiration in avant-garde music and art online as a teenager. Influenced by figures like performance artist Chris Burden, guitarist John Fahey, and director Harmony Korine, Hayden’s persona often blurs the lines between reality and performance.

The Archivists (2020) is a Canadian short film directed by Igor Drljaca that explores how artistic creation is the ultimate expression of our interconnectedness. Set in a dystopian future where past art is forbidden, the film follows three musicians who discover a secret room in an abandoned home containing vinyl records and a gramophone. Selecting one of the albums to play, they are inspired to perform one of the songs.

A Broken House is a moving documentary that tells the story of Mohamad Hafez who comes to the U.S. on a single-entry visa to study architecture, and, when he realizes that he can’t return to his home country, conjures home in his art.

We return to sharing film with a unique short that offers an intimate portrait of Toke Broni Strandby, a Danish dance artist, based in London. It also presents a many-layered empathetic vision of those behind its making.

Watch Somewhere South, a beautiful short film about Devon-based Lignum Surfboards who make eco-friendly hollow wooden surfboards. Their philosophy is that ‘every board can carve its own path when crafted with passion and soul.’

Pianos are being thrown away at a tremendous rate – hauled away, set on fire and their valuable heavy metal sold for scrap. Tim, Leon and their team of inspired artists, musicians and volunteers have reclaimed these unloved instruments to build the world’s first 100-seater amphitheatre made entirely from up-cycled pianos.

Who knows how to stem the tide except through dreams? – One night an old seaman dreams the ocean into his bed. His sea green sheets become the polluted waters of his worst nightmare. His own mortality is at risk as his household objects begin to suffocate him.

Tired of city life and in search of adventure they both set off on a 10,000-mile journey from London to Budapest and back – embracing spontaneity and with no plan they set off with two motorbikes, pots and pans, essential clothes, two cameras and a large bag of rice.

Watch the video for Goat’s new single ‘Let it Burn’ which featured in the documentary Killing Gävle which you can also watch in full – about the annual fight between local custodians and mischievous pagans for the spirit of Christmas in the small city of Gävle in northern Sweden.

Mulberry is a short film by Paul Stone about the gentrification of a small section of Manhattan where the rich and famous have chosen to live.

This is a short film featuring Blair Somerville, a New Zealand based inventor, artist and self-confessed tinkerer. His inventions are made from recycled parts, his mortgage free and he relies on solar power. He has a very simple philosophy that has been driving his creative juices for years, as testified by his Lost Gypsy Gallery, a wonderland of homegrown wizardry and a playground for kids and adults alike.

A lovely short film based on Charles Bukowski’s poem ‘Nirvana’ which revolves around a young man travelling to an undetermined destination, questioning his purpose in the world.