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Marry Me

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

dir: Michelle Lehman, 7min—Every February in Australia one of the more unique short film festivals in the world goes down. TropFest started out modestly in 1993 but has grown into a huge nationwide event since then. Hundreds of entries are submitted each year and out of those 16 finalists are chosen. These films are then […]

Tales of Mere Existence: How To Break Up

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Lev Yilmaz, 2:57—With his sharp, dry humor, Lev’s Tales of Mere Existence, cuts deep into life’s small yet painful truths.
Birthed from the real-life situations and obsessions of Lev himself, Tales captures Lev’s strange series of encounters including A Typical Conversation With My Mom, Procrastination, and I’m Not Going to Think About Her. As an introduction […]

A Journey Across Grandmother

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Meghana Bisineer, 5:21—Having purchased a new iPod recently I recognise there is beauty to be found in economy and abridgement. Meghana Bisineer’s six minute movie, A Journey Across Grandmother, delivers just these qualities. Its story is a touching one, the relationship of an infant girl with her revered, dying grandmother. Events unfold over the summer […]

Derek & Simon: The Show

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Bob Odenkirk, 3:05—It first surfaced in 2005, when a pilot show called Derek & Simon was produced for HBO. For reasons known only to a handful of sorry fools, the show was never picked up and landed on top of the pile of rejects.
Most shows die right there on that pile—their tape shrivels up and […]

A Portrait of Envy

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Enrique Garcia, 9:07-Cementing her status as a promising young actress, Riley Rose, star of the award-winning “Archer House” short film, shows up again in A Portrait of Envy, a 9-minute short film written and directed by Enrique Garcia. Rose portrays Gillian, a timid yet artistic young woman who believes she’s finally won over Jerry (Kris […]

Birdhouses

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

dir: Sam Goetz, 14:44—When I was a young boy, I would gather every Saturday evening around the television for our weekly family tradition of watching “Hee Haw,” an hour of country music, down home silliness and simple family fun.
As I grew up, my musical tastes moved more toward The Ramones and The Dead Kennedys and, […]

Dog

Monday, October 1st, 2007

dir: Suzie Templeton, 5:38—We like stop-motion animation here at ShortoftheWeek. The first two reviews we posted, Game Over and Creature Comforts were both stop-motion (though we’ve inexplicably ignored the form since), but we are not blind to the perceived diminishing of its stature. The dawn of CG brought about a lot of eulogizing on stop-motion […]

Marvelous Keen Loony Bin

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

A lively bunch of pastries await your selection in this quirky, animated film from RISD student, Lizzi Akana.
dir: Lizzi Akana, 5:37—This runaway hit from Rhode Island School of Design student, Lizzi Akana, was produced as her senior project. Marvelous Keen Loony Bin paints a surrealistic town where something is always missing and much is to […]

Fourteen

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

dir: Nicole Barnette, 6:22—A young girl somewhere in middle America turns 14 and her life is poised for a momentous change. The camera follows her on that fateful morning as she and her family prepare themselves for the new beginning ahead. That description may seem somewhat lacking, but it can be hard to write a […]

She and Her Cat

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

dir: Makoto Shinkai; 4:43—Makoto Shinkai is a force to be reckoned with. The buzz surrounding his 2002 film Hoshi No Koe, (available on domestic DVD as Voices of a Distant Star) catapulted him to fame in his native Japan, eliciting hyperbolic claims of him being the “next Miyazaki” That film, a 30min mix of 2-D […]