Mush

Drawn to the faded glamour of Blackpool and the heyday stories of its denizens, Olivier Richomme explains how he transformed seaside banality into a surrealist meditation on monstrosity for Mush - his disquieting surrealist meditation on monstrosity starring Bryony Miller as a young woman who wakes up in a stupor in a nameless British seaside town and has to make sense of a confusing world.

Ether

NFTS student Vida Skerk speaks to DN about her history-making Cannes La Cinef premiering first year short Ether, which sees suppressed tensions in a young couple's relationship rapidly disintegrate into toxicity as they struggle to communicate on questions of power and responsibility.

Watering Hole

Eva Blackwell-Rogelj unpacks the mirrored split brain psyche - represented by two young girls with differing morals out to get free drinks from men in a local pub - she used to dive deep into the opaquely murky waters of female sexuality vs male objectification in her troublingly familiar short Watering Hole, which exposes just how dangerous UK nightlife can be for women.

27

Making a welcome and timely appearance as Cannes opened its doors this year, Flóra Anna Buda’s Palme d'Or-winning short 27 is finally available to watch online. We revisit our interview in which we learn how Buda wanted to depict sex differently through animation, drew inspiration from David Lynch, and how Hungary’s law against so-called “LGBT propaganda” forced the project abroad.