- In Ngendo Mukii’s six-minute short Yellow Fever, the filmmaker uses real-life interviews, animation, and striking images of the human body to explore issues of race, identity, and self-image. Her main topic is the use of skin-lightening creams by African women. The short deals with the issue of feeling uncomfortable in one’s own skin – literally – and draws the viewer in through its striking, sometimes eerie visuals. See the film here.
- Daniel Koren’s one-and-a-half-minute The Microwave takes mundanity to the extreme. It centers on a man whose late-night microwave use triggers an existential crisis. It’s ridiculous, humorous, and slightly scientifically inaccurate (look carefully). Watch it here.
- The Reinvention of Normal, a seven-and-a-half minute film by Liam Saint-Pierre, is a quirky mock-doc that follows a Seussian inventor come to life. Its protagonist, Dominic, is an artist of sorts who specializes in changing the way we see the world. The short is great as a whole, but the real stars are the wacky inventions: a soccer ball smoothie maker, a bird-listening device, a stained glass car, etc. Check out the short here.
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