13 Minutes of Horror: Sci-Fi Horror

Thirteen sixty-second burst of award-winning filmmaking sound tempting, but even ones that use most of the runtime for action feel somewhat less than trailers.

The ones that set aside almost half of their seconds to rolling credits seem to miss the point entirely. I'm not convinced that many people could possibly have made a meaningful contribution to an incomprehensible sequence of images and sounds.

Some clips, however, do engage the viewer and even conjure up genuine horror in little more than the blink of an eye - a clearly dying person pressured to take on a new job; the promise of miracle results in a matter of days.

Technological dystopias seem the most fertile ground to capture and horrify quickly. These digital haiku, when done well, are thrilling.