Short Films, Documentaries and Music Videos

Short films, documentaries, music videos, experimental pieces and commissioned work, uploaded by the directors and crews who shot them. Each entry opens as the maker built it: the film itself as an embed or a direct upload, then the synopsis, the credits, the year and the format underneath.

A short is not a trailer for a feature. Most of what sits here runs under twenty minutes and was paid for out of somebody's own pocket, which shows in the choices: one location, two actors, natural light, a crew of five who all did three jobs each. Documentaries arrive in rough cuts and finished versions alike.

Watching costs nothing and needs no account. Open a piece, play it, then read what the director wrote about how it got made, which on a self-funded short is usually the most useful thing on the page. The profile behind it carries the email and phone, and that is where a commission or a crew job gets discussed.

Watching a short is a twelve minute commitment, which no still image asks of anyone. So the running time, the format and the synopsis sit right under the player, and directors tend to write a paragraph about what the thing is rather than a logline. Credits go in the same block, down to whoever mixed the sound, because on a crew that size the next job comes out of the last one.