Move. Eat. Learn.

I love/hate it when I encounter creative work like the three films featured below. Love because it is genuinely inspiring for me to consume such well executed, well thought out ideas. Hate because, well, I didn’t think of them. And this troika of films is just exactly the kind of conceptual awesomeness that makes me want to lock myself in a room with little more than my brain... Read More

Hitch

It has been a while since I posted an entry under this heading, thankfully! But today’s short film is so beautifully rendered, and so darned clever, I had to decide whether I would define it as a Stellar Short or place it in this rarer category that features works I wish I had thought of, or was totally blown away by for being on a level beyond my comprehension. This short... Read More

Focus

So there I am, wandering around the Internet, visiting all my favourite haunts…when i chance upon this short film by South African filmmaker Ari Kruger and now I Want To Cry. Because his short film Focus is so beautifully rendered, in every imaginable aspect of the process. Attractive cast, stunning cinematography, nice performances, efective use of voiceover and special... Read More

The new Sleeping Beauty trailer

Any time a film comes along, that genuinely re-imagines a classic story, I am overcome with envy while being simultaneously thoroughly impressed. So after berating myself for not having wired my brain to think that way, I take in the splendour of this new imaginary world and remind myself that it is not too late to learn. The new Sherlock TV series that BBC recently showed us was... Read More

I Want To Cry: Episode 01

Starting today, we are introducing a new feature on One Small Window – as you can see from the title, this feature is called I Want To Cry. Simply put, the desire to shed copious tears overcomes one of us, when we are brought face-to-browser with work/ability/talent so good it makes us want to sit down on a pavement and weep like a three-year-old whose puppy has run away (or... Read More

Your Lucky Day

A recent study revealed that people are more likely to watch short online videos through to their end. This may be true for most videos. But then a short film like Your Lucky Day comes around and it is difficult to figure out at what point a viewer would click away from it. The cinematography is amazing, the performances are uniformly good, nice writing, the score wouldn’t... Read More