In their short film “Artform”, the prolific producers Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge share their creative roadmap and studio secrets – encouraging today’s creators to pick up an instrument and discover their identity through music.
The Walkers
When a troubled art curator is forced to seek professional help, she is unknowingly manipulated by her therapist into being his replacement test subject, in a sinister experiment. Director Statement The Walkers is a concept short for a series with the same name. I wanted to explore the idea of[…]
Synesthesia
A young, aspiring painter goes through creativity crisis which makes him try out extreme experiments to renew his relationship with art.
The Art of Flawsome
Antonia is a perfectionist film photographer trying to complete a collection of photos. However, the man who employed her isn’t convinced that Antonia’s collection is good enough and believes it needs something more. He gives her a week to complete her collection or he will use another photographer’s work. Antonia[…]
The Subject
An uneasy journey of love, ambition and control, THE SUBJECT charts a young artist’s struggle to create the perfect piece of portraiture. Choosing her partner as her muse, Sally learns the hard way that personal sacrifice can inspire great art. The more her relationship fractures, the closer she comes to[…]
This is a Dog
This is a Dog examines why dogs are so unique, and explores what makes something truly alive and special in our hearts. Our ode to the art of stop motion. A short conversation between ‘Logic’ and ‘Love’ about what makes a dog a dog. Logic sees a dog for its[…]
The Minimalist
Thomas, a self-proclaimed recluse, is a photographer in New York City who sees the world through the lens of his camera. He approaches his photography—as well as his life—in a minimalist style, focusing on the purity and simplicity of things. His world is turned upside down when he encounters Sylvia,[…]
7DS
7DS is a self initiated 360° short project about the desire for more and the human need for excess: the seven deadly sins. Seven visions, all linked by our art of watching and being watched.
Wake Up
This experimental micro-film follows a dreamer as she runs from her fears. Director’s Statement This piece was birthed out of my own inability to strike a balance between the commercial world and the art world, and a need to learn how to let go of my own self-doubt. This surreal[…]
Dorothea
With a broken car, a camera in hand and a half-built house in the distance, a photographer finds herself facing a deeper and more unsettling part of her desires than she hoped. DOROTHEA is a film about the sexual awakening of a woman divided between the promises that bind her[…]