Archive for February, 2008
Pin Point
Sunday, February 24th, 2008James Kim, 3:43—Created during his stint in the Character Animation program at CalArts School of Film & Video, James Kim’s Pin Point is a beautifully sketched short in which a young girl is snatched away from her father’s funeral by a kind-looking orphanage caregiver who ends up being anything but caring or giving.
A finalist for […]
Genesis Antipode
Sunday, February 17th, 2008dir: J.R. Robinson, 15:00—The post apocalyptic sub-genre is a particularly fitting one for short film. Figure: With almost everyone dead, there’s not a whole lot going on. Most of the features taking place in these dim tomorrows could have their plots reduced to ten minutes. A majority of the run times are used up […]
Father and Daughter
Sunday, February 10th, 2008dir: Michael Dudok de Wit, 8:00—In 2000, Father and Daughter (watch it here) won the Academy Award for Best Short Film for its Dutch director Michael Dudok de Wit. For such a short (eight minutes) movie it has a remarkable capacity to move an audience. The story of a father who leaves his daughter […]
And She Stares Longingly at What She Has Lost
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008Phillip Van, 2:31—I spend a lot of time, perhaps more than could reasonably be considered healthy, trolling around webland looking for forms of visual entertainment to while away the day, so when I come across something that’s completely new to me but has been hiding in the open for a while it has the unsettling […]