For the Winter season of ShortHaus, we’re taking a brief tour of the world. First stop, New Zealand, for the wonderfully offbeat director, actor and comedian, Taika Waititi. After that, we’ll take a quick trip over to France to check…
The leaves are beginning to change, fall is here and we’ve already featured our first director(s) of the fall quarter with Cristobal León and Joaquín Cociña. We’re going to continue focusing on visually dynamic directors for the season with the…
The next featured ShortHaus Cinema director is actually a pair of directors, Cristobal León and Joaquín Cociña, a joint team of stop-motion animators from Chile. We’ll soon be celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month, so I wanted to select a series of…
ShortHaus Cinema began in March 2023 as a passion project between two film lovers/wannabe filmmakers, Studio Services Specialists Patrick and Ruth (me). Working in Studio 300, we saw how many resources were available to our patrons: cameras, lighting, audio equipment,…
Last month, ShortHaus Cinema featured a director turned producer. In an interesting turn, this month we’re featuring someone who intended to be a producer but turned out to be a spectacular director. Charlotte Wells has made a big splash in…
ShortHaus Cinema’s next featured director reveals an interesting dilemma. Despite being one of the most well-known names in Hollywood and beyond, George Lucas is one of the least prolific directors we’ve featured, only directing a scant six films, four of…
Last month, ShortHaus Cinema held our first-ever Short Film Competition! Though we provided prompts and suggestions, the actual format of the competition was simple: make anything you want, keep it short and everything must be completed within a week. This…
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…