Short of the Week

Eat. Learn. Move.

3 friends create three indelible short travel films, each centering around a specific topic.

The super hot thing on Vimeo right now. Three simple, minute-long pieces, each revolving around a theme, and all three compiled from video taken on an epic trip. You know, the kind of transnational odyssey you and your college buddies always talk about embarking on but barely even get started planning. Rick Mereki, Tim White and Andrew Lees, unlike you, went all the way and came up with these wonderful short travel films that distill all the pleasure of a season of Rick Steves episodes into internet-sized super-doses. The films stimulate our natural curiosity and wanderlust, but also happen to be nice to look at, employing trendy videography tricks like splitscreen symmetry.

3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage… all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ….into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films…..

= a trip of a lifetime.

 

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Sondhi approaches films from the perspective of an uber-fan, knowledgeable film academic, and occasional filmmaker. His tendency to over-think his film criticisms is due to a background in Philosophy, but he is putting useless intellectualizing aside for this site.
  • pete

    andrew lees not lee

  • Jason Sondhi

    Thanks @pete. Updated

  • http://www.facebook.com/fantabhimbo Himbo

    This was perfect.

  • nayeon-kim

    perfect.
    i.n.v.u.
    iloveU

  • Biba

    Brilliant.

  • Selso

    Great jib, and very cute smile !

  • selso

    Great job

  • lin

    love it!!! <3