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Tumbleweed! (Critique)

Posted by on Jul 7, 2012 in Critiques, Critiques (Short Narrative), Narrative, Short Length | 23 comments

For their first foray into digital (at least that I've seen), the Varavas (Justin wrote andd Jared directed) went with the RedOne (which is arguably the highest end digital rig that most microbudget filmmakers can afford to rent and still stay microbudget). But what to tell with this digital exploration? Why, what else? A Western tale about a tumbleweed, of course! But not just any tumbleweed, of course. A loner tumbleweed who marches to the beat of his own windstream!

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Quinkin (Critique)

Posted by on Dec 26, 2011 in Critiques, Critiques (Short Narrative), Narrative, Short Length | 1 comment

In Aboriginal legend, the time of creation is known as the Dreamtime. It was a sacred and mystical era in which spirits created the world. One of those spirits - still feared by modern-day Aborigines - was known as the Quinkin. The Quinkin had two distinct beings: one was described as being long and whip thin with a rounded head that had spikes coming out of it. This being lives in cracks in rocks and is good-natured. The other being is evil in nature - big and fat, and known for any and all kind of mischief and bad deeds. Some Aborigines are afraid to even pronounce the name of this spirit for fear of its power.

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Dig (Short Critique)

Posted by on Nov 7, 2011 in Critiques, Critiques (Short Narrative), Narrative, Short Length | 0 comments

David (Aaron Himelstein) appears to be an average college student in 1962. He spends most of his waking hours debating philosophy with his friends in a local coffee shop and questioning how morality is subject to perspective. However, one day, as David is chatting with Marie (Tiffany Brouwer) and a few of his collegiate friends about Nietsche, his theory of the ubermensche (“superman” or “overman”

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