Amateur
Jettison Your Loved Ones
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008dir: Ray Tintori, 6min—Sheer exuberance. The web is populated with a lot of lo-fi, shoestring budget work, but admittedly few have a vision or voice. That does not apply to Jettison your Loved Ones, a student film by young up and comer Ray Tintori, which oozes with charming quirk and character.
It is almost detrimental to […]
Teenage Bikini Vampire
Sunday, August 17th, 2008dir: Devi Snively, 7 min—Each August I find myself shocked when, like all the Augusts before, I am overwhelmed by the preparation for the Dragon*Con Indie Short Film Festival, which I happen to run. 30,000 people show up for four days of film and yet I somehow believe that I’m going to have a free […]
Checkmate
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008dir: Casimir Nozkowski, 9:44—Dallas Penn and Rafi Kam are two guys from New York. They both have day jobs and their own separate blogs, but together, under the nom-de-vid the Internets Celebrities, they create short, bristling, funny documentary essays on topics ranging from how to remix the Big Mac to the role of the bodega […]
Rapping at Fear
Sunday, April 13th, 2008Andrés Tabares, 6:44—Do movies really matter? Can a short film possibly make a difference in this world? Andrés Tabares, a high school senior from the slums of Bogota, Colombia sure thinks so.
Tabares is both the director and subject of Rapping at Fear, a short documentary currently competing in the 7th annual Media That Matters Film […]
Mimi Carina: Emilie au Pays des Morts
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007dir: Cedric Herole, 2:40—This week’s new short Mimi Carina, is a cute animated tale I stumbled across while checking out Studio 4c’s “Next Genius” promotional contest over on Myspace.
There are a lot of promo contests out nowadays, but this one is interesting because Studio 4c is a big name in Japanese animation. Best known stateside […]
Tuesday
Monday, May 21st, 2007A young woman takes her time getting out of bed on this Tuesday morning just as every other Tuesday before it.
dir: Asa Arnehed, 5:57—This quirky short follows a handful of people in various different settings waking up and performing their typical Tuesday morning routines. It’s the sort of story that you could easily see in […]
Hello
Sunday, May 6th, 2007dir: Jonathan Nix, 6:32—An endearing animation about the struggles of love and self-expression. Hello’s characters are created from common audio devices—forced to communicate with what technology they have. A bumbling, young cassette player fumbles with his tape deck as he hopelessly attempts to capture the attention of the cute, digital girl next door. His earnest […]
The Happiest Monster
Thursday, March 29th, 2007dir: Jonathan Kim, 1:22—Away from established masters to a plucky amateur we go with this next short animation, found and available via the magic of youtube. Confronted by a giant monster, a young lady’s fear is turned to delight with a lick of the monster’s giant tongue. But can this new friendship last?
This lo-fi work […]