Collections
Six films that belong together, chosen by the people who program Segla. Every collection is signed.
Night ShiftSeven films that take place after everyone sensible has gone to bed. Not one of them treats night as a mood. Here night is a shift somebody is working, a bus somebody is waiting for, a pool that is only free at that hour. Start with Sodium Lights if you have sixteen minutes. Start with Temporada if you have the whole evening.
First FeaturesFive people making a feature for the first time, with the particular nerve that comes from not yet knowing what you are not allowed to do. Two of these were shot in under four weeks. One was shot over two years. They have almost nothing in common except that somebody decided a short was no longer enough.
Under Fifteen MinutesEleven films, none of them longer than fifteen minutes, all of them finished. That is the point. A short is not a sketch for something bigger. It is the whole thought at the right length, and getting the length right is the hardest part of the job. Watch three tonight. It costs you less than one episode of anything.
Pilots We Would GreenlightFive pilots that exist because somebody stopped waiting for permission. None of them were commissioned. All of them build a world you would follow for six more hours. If you work in television, this is the part of Segla we would like you to spend an afternoon in. If you do not, watch them anyway. They are better than most of what got made.
Proof of ConceptThree short films made to prove that something bigger is possible. Most proofs of concept are a trailer for a film that does not exist. These are not. Each one is complete on its own terms, and each one leaves you certain there is more. Nine minutes, seven minutes, eight minutes. Then go and find the filmmaker.
Summer, SomewhereSeven films about the specific heat of a summer that is ending. A cliff in Marseille, a housing block in Berlin, a municipal pool in Ontario, a hot afternoon in Buenos Aires. Nobody in these films is on holiday. They live there, and the season is doing something to them anyway. Best watched with a window open and the lights off.