One of the goals of ShortHaus Cinema is to spotlight lesser-known and marginalized directors. So for Black History Month, we chose to feature an integral part of film history, the first Black woman director to get a feature debut, Julie…
ShortHaus Cinema has featured many artists-turned-directors, but January’s featured director, Lutz Dammbeck, has remained firmly in the artist camp. His artistic practice includes drawing, painting, animation, collage, conceptual art, installations, research and documentary filmmaking. He is certainly the most avant-garde…
ShortHaus’s next featured director is Jim Henson, a playfully prolific artist who modernized and revolutionized puppetry by adapting the centuries-old medium for television. (Fun fact: some scholars trace the origin of puppets to India 4000 years ago, where the main…
ShortHaus Cinema is yet again featuring an artist-turned-director. Although we initially chose Ridley Scott for November because his new feature, Napoleon, will be coming out later in the month, he is also well-known for his artistic storyboards known as Ridleygrams….
Fundamentals of Horror ShortHaus Cinema‘s next featured director is the prolific Ridley Scott. And, seeing as it’s the spookiest month of the year, we simply must talk about his most frightening film: Alien (1979). I’d also like to revisit this…
ShortHaus Featured Director: Alison Maclean For our next director in our unintended series on artists-turned-directors, we have… Alison Maclean! This Canadian-born, New Zealand film director originally went to the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland to…
ShortHaus Cinema’s Collages If you’ve visited our website or walked by our displays, you might have seen a busy collage advertising the next ShortHaus Cinema program. Patrick and I (Studio 300 Specialists) chose to brand the ShortHaus programs with loud,…