Short Film and Politics

Many journalists and aspiring filmmakers have made political short films to highlight usually controversial news stories that are not shown in the mainstream, usually for their own personally motives or to gain recognition as a filmmaker or journalist.

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have both inspired many humans rights groups and anti-war campaigners to create short films as video activism, but there are also documentary filmmakers such as...

Martin Scorsese made an experimental, surrealist short film whilst he was at film school in 1967, which was supposedly created to criticize the American War in Vietnam. The pointlessness of the act featured in the film reflects the supposed pointlessness of the war in Vietnam. Also the fact that the protagonist is 'self-harming' also reflects the pointless damage that America were inflicting upon themselves during the Vietnam war.