Documentary
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 […]
Living in the Dark
Monday, November 26th, 2007dir: Thomas Leung, 3:52—A dreamy story about the cherished gift of sight. Filmmaker, Thomas, reaches to the depths of his own childhood and pulls out this warming anecdote of a time when an eye wound threatened his lifelong ability to see. Unappreciative of his sight at the time, he soon became completely dependent on others […]
The Shock Doctrine
Sunday, October 21st, 2007dir: Jonás Cuarón, 6:46—I find this week’s short to be interesting for a myriad of reasons, perhaps the least of which are its controversial politics. Part documentary, half advertisement and in places an artistic short film, with a solid dose of agit-prop thrown in, The Shock Doctrine is a slick piece of media that employs […]
Invasion of the Puzzle People
Monday, June 25th, 2007dir: Kristian Boruff, 5:35—The internet is a weird place. Who knows or can predict why people are attracted to or congregate to certain sites, stirring up buzz and creating engaged communities surrounding them. Lot’s of people try to create the content to achieve this and fail, but Kristian Boruff didn’t try. He is probably […]
Cameraman
Wednesday, April 11th, 2007dir: This American Life & Chris Ware, 4:13—The popular NPR radio show, This American Life, has recently launched a spinoff television series through the cable network, Showtime. Cameraman, from episode 5, tells the story of G.J. Echternkamp and how a trend of fake news reporting overtakes his grade school classmates and a piece of their […]