Two flavours in one
September 26, 2018 Those of you who’ve been friends of Quantum Shorts for the long haul – we got started in 2012 – will notice that our website is looking different this year. If you’re new here, we’ve made it easier for you to find all of the best quantum-inpsired film and fiction from our […]
Who’s involved this year?
September 26, 2018 Quantum Shorts is nothing without you: the people who enter their creative works of film and fiction, and those of you who visit to enjoy the work of others. We wouldn’t get very far without our partners and judges either. We at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore, organiser of this […]
We’re back with a call for films
September 26, 2018 Lights, camera, action! We are calling for entries to the celebrated Quantum Shorts film festival. The festival is free to enter, and open to amateur and professional film-makers who want to tell stories that draw inspiration from quantum physics. “Quantum physics invites us to look at the world in new ways,” says […]
Five prizes for flash fiction
March 29, 2018 If you’ve ever wished you could escape this world for another Universe, the winner of this year’s Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition offers a cautionary tale. In “Acceptable Loss” by Przemysław Zańko, a failed relationship puts the entire multiverse under threat. The story is one of five to claim prizes in the […]
A new crop of flash fiction finalists
February 02, 2018 It’s time for us to do away with the uncertainty in the outcome of Quantum Shorts 2017. The shortlisting panel members read thousands and thousands of words across hundreds of stories to choose the shortlists from our 2017 call for entries. We are thrilled to announce ten finalists in the competition’s open […]
Our 2017 call for flash fiction
October 11, 2017 We’re pleased to announce a call for entries to the Quantum Shorts flash fiction competition. The competition is open to stories up to 1000 words long that take inspiration from quantum physics and include the phrase “There are only two possibilities: yes or no”. The competition is free to enter, offering prizes […]
Exploding stars and a quantum love triangle
March 31, 2017 We hope you’ve watched and enjoyed our ten Quantum Shorts finalists. For the filmmakers, the wait is over: the judges have deliberated on how to award our top prizes and over 1,000 of you have voted to decide the People’s Choice prize. “I was impressed by the wide range of approaches taken […]
Ten films selected as finalists
February 15, 2017 “Crazy enough”, “visually very exciting”, “compelling from the start”, “beautiful cinematography”: this is what members of the Quantum Shorts festival shortlisting panel had to say about films selected for screening. The ten shortlisted films were chosen from a total of 203 submissions received during the festival’s 2016 call for entries. We thank […]
Send your films for Quantum Shorts 2016
September 16, 2016 When Quantum Shorts launched in 2012, it was a one-off, online-only film competition. Since then it has become established as an annual celebration of creativity inspired by quantum physics, alternating between calls for flash fiction and film. This year it’s the turn of films again, and Quantum Shorts is growing beyond the […]
“Ana” takes top prize in Quantum Shorts 2015
April 01, 2016 What if checking for monsters under your bed doomed a parallel you to a grisly end? A story that explores this fear of a girl aged six and three quarter years has won the 2015 Quantum Shorts international competition for flash fiction inspired by quantum physics. “Ana” by Liam Hogan was selected […]