Anna Hopkins’ Dish Pit: intimacy after the shift

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   Anna Hopkins’ Dish Pit: intimacy after the shift

   Anna Hopkins turns a real restaurant into a quiet two‑hander, filming post‑service connection with cinematographer Mat Barkley.
   In Dish Pit, Anna Hopkins stages a still, intimate short about two men finding connection after a shift — rehearsed in a working restaurant and shot on a RED Komodo X. Watch
   
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   Jasper Martin: making comedy out of AI customer-service hell

   A short film about being locked out of your email becomes a claustrophobic, funny and unsettling riff on tech and trust.
   Jasper Martin’s Listen Then Repeat turns an AI hotline nightmare into a tightly framed comedy-horror, shot in one room with Ruby Blinkhorn and a live off-screen AI voice. Watch
   
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   Andy Reid on Brief Somebodies: making a meta short about assault

   Writer‑director Andy Reid frames a personal trauma inside a film set to interrogate how stories get made.
   Andy Reid’s Brief Somebodies stages a rehearsal of sexual violence to interrogate memory, performance and the cost of making something honest. Watch
   
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   Shahaf Ram’s seven-year animated space opera, Orange Story

   A near-solo short film that folds heartbreak into a cosmic landscape.
   Shahaf Ram made Orange Story almost single‑handedly over seven years — a personal animated space opera shaped in Paris and finished through the pandemic. Watch
   
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   Theo Matza's Faux Amis: catfishing, Paris and long‑lens voyeurism

   A short by director Theo Matza that flips gendered scams and films Paris like a surveillance spectacle.
   Theo Matza’s 15‑minute Faux Amis mixes AI‑tinged catfishing, a gender role reversal and sustained zooms across Paris, shot across two cities with a tight, international crew. Watch
   

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Jake ErlandDirector · Cinematographer · London

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Rory Alexander StewartWriter · Director · UK

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Gabriel Moses & Jake GabbayDirector · Cinematographer · London

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Petr VlčekDirector · Prague

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Nico de SolaDirector · London

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