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16 Shorts in 16 Days? Yes It Can Be Done and You Should Try It
“Filmmakers Will Blank and Jake Bradbury decided to get together one day a week to conceptualize and shoot a film, just for the hell of it. In the process, they found it to be a potent cure for struggling filmmaker malaise.”
-Oakley Anderson-Moore, NoFilmSchool
Watch: Short Film Series Twentieth Century Faux, by Jake and Will
“…their 16-episode online short film series Twentieth Century Faux is both a smartly packaged exploration of millennial anxieties as well as a kind of personal filmmaking challenge that connects these two filmmakers back to the essential pleasures of making movies.”
-Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker Magazine
A Booty Call Goes Amusingly Awry in a New Short Film, Just in Time for Valentine’s Day — Watch
“For both Blank and Bradbury…getting back to their indie roots was key. The result is a project they dubbed 20th Century Faux, featuring a series of shorts that explore modern life and relationships from a variety of perspectives, using topics as diverse as VR, weed, social media, yoga, chocolate, Dungeons & Dragons, Los Angeles traffic, and good, old-fashioned confusion and misdirection to drive their narratives.
-Kate Erbland, IndieWire
20th Century Faux Shorts: Review
“This is why 20th Century Faux’s shorts come as a refreshing surprise. In the hands of prior generations this technology has been decided to be a categorically Bad Thing, to be regarded with absolute suspicion and resentment. The members of this group actually use it, have grown up with it, have it knotted deeply into the skein of their existence. In short, they understand it. What emerges from this understanding is an impression of great loneliness, and of a world of unsatisfactory surfaces.”
-Fergus Henderson, BRWC
Watch: Short Comedy Short 'Girl, Interrupted' Directed by Jake & Will
“Feeling lonely? Need a good laugh? Want to hate text messages even more than you already do? Fire up this short film Girl, Interrupted, a three-minute comedy short directed by Jake & Will…this goes to show how much fun you can have with pretty much no budget. If you enjoy this, there’s plenty more from this team on the way soon.”
-Alex Billington, FirstShowing.net
16 Comedy Shorts About Loneliness
“What carries over from [Blank’s previous short film] LIMBO to this new group of shorts, is a grounded yet fantastical tone, best described by Scott Beggs at Nerdist as “just a hint of absurdity, winked at by the filmmakers…”