Lists

these play in a room

Films I have programmed or would programme tomorrow. A room changes a film. Every one of these gets bigger with forty strangers in the dark.

the forty minutes after sunset

Forty minutes a day, twice a day, and all of these were shot inside it. Watch them on the best screen you own with the room lights off.

pilots I would greenlight

I have sat in rooms where these decisions get made and they are not made like this. Five pilots. I would buy four and argue about the fifth.

films to watch with the sound up

Turn it up or do not bother. Everything here was mixed by somebody who cared, and half of it is wasted on a laptop speaker.

under ten minutes, over my head

Short films I did not understand the first time and went back to. Some of them I still do not understand. I am fine about it.

somebody has a job

Films where a person goes to work and the film knows what the work actually is. My favourite genre. Nobody else calls it a genre.

late shift

What I put on when I get home from the booth and the flat is too quiet. Nothing here has ever felt long at three in the morning.

things I rewatched this summer

Not the best films I saw this summer. The ones I went back to, which turned out to be a different list entirely.

what I put on at the end of a long week

I watch submissions all week. These are the ones I go back to on a Sunday, when nobody is asking me for a decision about anything.

the argument for shorts

For everybody who tells me they do not have time. All of these are shorter than the argument we are having about it.

still arguing with these

Films I rate highly and would still fight about. If you loved any of them without reservation, I would honestly like to hear why.

where the cut is the point

For anyone who still thinks editing is invisible. It is not invisible here. In every one of these, one cut is the whole idea.