The hit-and-miss nature of experimental short films is in evidence today with Black Box Shorts, a collection of shamelessly abstract pieces that range from the exhilarating and elegiac to the tiresome and ‘come on mate, you just filmed some random shit and threw evocative music on top.’ Highlights include Terminal Communication, an ingenious three minuter consisting of one sped-up shot of cars trying to navigate their way through a particularly awkward ferry terminal. While this tickles the funny bone, Vertigo Rush elicits a different but no less visceral reaction. Presenting us with a repetitious “trombone shot” (where the camera zooms in but tracks back to create a nauseating effect, pioneered by Hitchcock’s Vertigo) covering a simple bit of wooded land, the scratchy visuals and tumbling sound effects progressively distort and grow in intensity over twenty minutes until they reach a peak and the film suddenly cuts out. The physiological and psychological reaction this results in is remarkarble (though sensitive viewers may start to feel a shade anxious) and at the film’s climax is so intense one can imagine the feeling of being transported to another dimension. if only Kubrick had thought of doing this for his famed sequence towards the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey.