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…
Méliès As Magician For September, ShortHaus Cinema is featuring the life and works of Georges Méliès, an inventor, illusionist and arguably one of the most significant figures in early cinema. During his lifetime, he would write, produce, direct and often…
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,…
What is ShortHaus? ShortHaus is a program centered on making movies. We differ from Film Club in that we don’t look at one film, but an entire director’s oeuvre, encouraging participants to find value in creators they haven’t looked at…
Hello and welcome to the final installment of my four-part Pride-month series: Speculative Fiction and (My) Pride, where I’ve been discussing how I’ve understood and related to Pride through the lens of diverse and inclusive media. The bulk of this…
Hello and welcome to part three of my four-part Pride-month series: Speculative Fiction and (My) Pride! In part one, Imagining Diverse Futures, I introduced the world of Star Trek and the narrative spaces it created for diversity and inclusivity through…
Hello and welcome to part two of my four-part Pride-month series: Speculative Fiction and (My) Pride! Last week I introduced the role of Star Trek as an influential piece of speculative fiction. Today’s discussion, “Bodies and Souls,” will examine two…
Hello and welcome to part one of my four-part Pride-month series: Speculative Fiction and (My) Pride! Across this four-part series, I will be guiding you through an introspective examination of speculative fiction’s impact on how I experience and understand Pride…
While I have a lot of frustrations concerning streaming services, one net positive gain from competing channels (Netflix vs. Max vs. Paramount+, etc.) is the wealth of creative story-telling attempts. Each platform seems to have dipped its toes into the…
I am of the firm opinion that when it comes to the worlds of Star Wars, the best moments come not from the blockbuster films but from expanded universe creations that have taken the world-building of the main Skywalker Saga…