Archive for January, 2008
Mermaid
Monday, January 28th, 2008dir: Aleksandr Petrov, 9:48—Oscar nominations came out earlier this week, so congratulations to all the nominees in live-action and animation. A special Short of the Week kudo goes to Suzie Templeton whose stop-motion film Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf was nominated in the animation category. Her previous short Dog, was one of our Best Of […]
Best of 2007
Wednesday, January 23rd, 20081. Inside—Multiple personalities strike again. view »
2. Balance—A group of men stand atop a floating platform only to find their balance disturbed by a musical box and their own greedy ambitions (claymation). view »
3. Badgered—All the badger wants is some peaceful rest; difficult when you’re resting over an underground missile launch site. view »
4. Abigail—A […]
Terminus
Monday, January 21st, 2008dir: Trevor Cawood, 8:22—Terminus (Latin for “boundary stone”) is a dark comedy about the self-destructive nature of the human mind and the dangers of urban isolation. In this film, a colossus made of concrete pilings follows a lonely man throughout the city tormenting him as he goes about his daily life on the subway, at […]
Katasumi (In a Corner)
Sunday, January 13th, 2008Takashi Shimizu, 3:22—By the ’90s, American horror had lost anything that even resembled frights. Film after film featuring anonymous guys wearing masks macheting equally anonymous teens had given way to self-aware films featuring anonymous guys wearing masks macheting yet more anonymous teens. It was time for something different, something actually creepy. That something was J-Horror, […]
A Portrait of Envy
Sunday, January 6th, 2008Enrique Garcia, 9:07-Cementing her status as a promising young actress, Riley Rose, star of the award-winning “Archer House” short film, shows up again in A Portrait of Envy, a 9-minute short film written and directed by Enrique Garcia. Rose portrays Gillian, a timid yet artistic young woman who believes she’s finally won over Jerry (Kris […]