http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2007/07/29/the-owl/ Your Weekly Ticket to the Best Online Short Films Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:30:25 -0700 hourly 1 http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2007/07/29/the-owl/comment-page-1/#comment-13 On Your Mark | Short of the Week Mon, 12 Nov 2007 04:21:10 +0000 http://www.shortoftheweek.com/2007/07/29/the-owl/#comment-13 [...] Technically it’s not a short film, it’s a music video from 1994 for the popular Japanese pop duo Chage and ASKA and thus I’m cheating. ASA and I decided a while back we wanted to stick more so to narrative pieces and shy away from music video and the like. But in my defense he did review The Owl a few weeks back, and this music video, with the care taken in the development of its characters, the intelligible plot and cinematic scope, make On Your Mark far more akin to an auteur’s short film than to an MTV style/technique showcase. [...] [...] Technically it’s not a short film, it’s a music video from 1994 for the popular Japanese pop duo Chage and ASKA and thus I’m cheating. ASA and I decided a while back we wanted to stick more so to narrative pieces and shy away from music video and the like. But in my defense he did review The Owl a few weeks back, and this music video, with the care taken in the development of its characters, the intelligible plot and cinematic scope, make On Your Mark far more akin to an auteur’s short film than to an MTV style/technique showcase. [...]

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