Archive for July, 2007
The Owl
Sunday, July 29th, 2007Click on image to watch film
dir: Emmanuel Ho, 2:46—Deep, dark and beautifully disturbing, The Owl, a music video for I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness, is a perfectly constructed moment of desperation. Tied down at the ankle, a frantic crow struggles to reach freedom as pop culture’s lipstick and fast food containers fly past. […]
Mimi Carina: Emilie au Pays des Morts
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007dir: Cedric Herole, 2:40—This week’s new short Mimi Carina, is a cute animated tale I stumbled across while checking out Studio 4c’s “Next Genius” promotional contest over on Myspace.
There are a lot of promo contests out nowadays, but this one is interesting because Studio 4c is a big name in Japanese animation. Best known stateside […]
Birds
Monday, July 16th, 2007Dogs love to jump. Click image to watch the film at iFilm.com
dir: Pleix + Vitalic, 3:04—Man’s best friend flutters weightlessly through this hypnotic music video. Vitalic’s White Labels provides the soundtrack as dogs are hurled into the air in slow motion. The dogs courageously cross into unknown territory, surrendering control of their surroundings to the […]
High Times Editorial Office
Monday, July 9th, 2007dir: College Humor, 3:00—A site with continually good original online content, man that is the golden goose everybody is looking for. Funny shorts that aren’t the newest viral video of a cat being spanked, but instead concepts and scripts that are actually acted out? That would be cool. I’m not saying that Collegehumor achieves that […]
City Paradise
Sunday, July 1st, 2007A unique hybrid of live-action, 3D, and 2D animation come together to create this visual masterpiece.
dir: Gaëlle Denis, 5:58—Nominated for a 2005 BAFTA Award (the British Oscar), City Paradise captures the fear and uncertainty of new environments. A young woman’s first day in London leaves her with the unflattering impression of wet streets and starchy […]