https://filmzee.top/blog/ Writing about short film as a serious art form. Director profiles, festival notes, archive discoveries, and criticism. en-us Fri, 22 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 https://filmzee.top/assets/og-preview.png https://filmzee.top/blog/ https://filmzee.top/blog/short-form.html https://filmzee.top/blog/short-form.html Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0200 No concessions to runtime. No studio note about audience identification. No distributor waiting for a marketable cut. The constraints of the short are the point — and they produce a different kind of honesty. https://filmzee.top/blog/year-review.html https://filmzee.top/blog/year-review.html Sat, 08 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0100 We started FilmZee in March 2019 with two hundred films and forty members. Six years later we have some thoughts about the form, about preservation, and about what it means to take something seriously. https://filmzee.top/blog/idfa-2024.html https://filmzee.top/blog/idfa-2024.html Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:00:00 +0100 Eleven films from this year's shorts programme, with notes on what made each one worth watching a second time. Not a ranking — just the ones that opened something. https://filmzee.top/blog/director-page.html https://filmzee.top/blog/director-page.html Mon, 14 Oct 2024 09:00:00 +0200 Over twelve films in six years, the Japanese-Dutch director has made the personal essay the defining unit of her practice. We spent a month with her catalog trying to understand why it works. https://filmzee.top/blog/festival-circuit.html https://filmzee.top/blog/festival-circuit.html Wed, 03 Jul 2024 09:00:00 +0200 A film wins at Clermont-Ferrand, screens at twenty festivals, earns its director a reputation — and then vanishes. We tracked a cohort of award-winning shorts from 2015 to see where they ended up.