Via CNet, I’ve learned that the National Film Board of Canada, that awesome sponsor of innumerable award-winning short films, is now offering over 500 films available for viewing on your…
Spike Jonze spins a blend of realism and fantasy in this bizarre look into the twisted world of Kanye West.
A meteorite encounter causes a man to exist 91cm from himself in this beautifully haunting illustration of a self-destructive mind.
A brief yet inventive 16mm short highlights our hero’s journey into the cinema screen in order to save the starlet he loves.
You may have heard the news today. Despite President Obama’s personal lobbying, the International Olympic Committee snubbed Chicago as host for the 2016 games in favor of Rio. It was…
Street artist Blu animates large-scale creatures as they crawl across an abandoned Argentine cityscape.
Amid the Great Depression, a limbless man joins a circus and searches to become more than just a sideshow act in this Doorpost winning film.
ASA has been working hard to rip out the malicious code infecting Shortoftheweek, which had been responsible for the RSS spam and general site sluggishness. As a result we were…
Nothing excites the internet masses (yours truly included) like a best of list. A new one out lists a bunch of really important animation directors and their representative works. Created…
The most acclaimed student work of the decade is this post-apocalyptic CG action short out of UCLA, which won the director the right to adapt it to the big screen.
I can’t know, since I don’t live in France or know any French animators, but in my mind I like to believe that there is an epic rivalry between the…
Brief look at the curious interactions between a lone cowboy and a theater ticketer by the Coen brothers.
Inventive music video for Coldplay featuring lead singer Chris Martin as an explorer of new worlds and realized entirely in drawn chalk animation.
Shorts International, the UK-based purveyor of for-sale short films on Itunes and sponsor of the Oscar Nominee theater screenings for short film, unveiled something cool again. ShortsHD is their newest…
Maniacal Lumberjacks!!! Shady Tree Dealers!! Corny Dads and Sex-crazed Teens!! It’s Christmas and there are some trees that can’t take anymore…warning—hilariously graphic violence ahead.
The second collaboration between NPR institution “This American Life” and comic book icon Chris Ware, examines the slipperiness of memory to humorous effect.
In this Oscar-nominated short film a young boy is caught on the wrong side of the India-Pakistani border. The film presents the common humanity on both sides as well as the danger in the middle.
The humorous requests received at a photographic archive are the fodder for this splendid animation.
Jason is a depressed office boy, but through the window he sees the girl who might change all that. With blank paper and a sharpie he endeavors to let her know.
As you might have heard, Cannes is getting underway. While you don’t get to see any of the official competition films, Cannes does have this cool thing called the Short…
A young boy rides through his memories in this early student-made sci-fi effects film.
At a major moment in her life, a young girl encounters an unknown man outside her house, in this ambiguous, poetic film.
Young girl lives in a fantasy world in this effects-laden film meant to show off Adobe’s creative suite.
