Beware The TIME TRAP! Watch Michael Shanks' Fabulous Short Film Now!

Impossibly young and stupidly talented Australian director Michael Shanks has turned up here in the pages of ScreenAnarchy several times over the past few year. Now in his early twenties there's seemingly nothing Shanks can't do, starting with a YouTube channel that drew fans with his playful and beautifully executed video game themed videos before broadening out into often surreal music videos and on to short films. Shanks does pretty much everything himself - writing, directing, VFX, often the music, often starring - and has grown from his video game origins to winning awards at festivals and now directing an album's worth (or at least as many as he ultimately decides he wants) of music videos for Guy Pearce.

Which brings us to Time Trap, a short film we ran a teaser for a little while back which is now freshly available online in its entirety. I'm not sure if the budget is meant to be public knowledge but I know what it is and it's TINY but you'd never know it from what ended up on screen. Clever, playful, and beautifully executed on any level you'd care to name this is one of our absolute favorites of recent days. Check it out below.