Experimental
Daylight
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008dir: Igor Zimmermann, 2min—I feel we all know each other well enough here that I can share a confession with you. I like, no love and adore, pretty things, and that filters right down to my taste in films. Of course we all care greatly about a film being well written, laying out an engaging […]
There is Only One Sun
Monday, May 5th, 2008dir: Wong Kar Wai, 7:45—As we have proven with many of the recommendations on this site, being famous is no prerequisite to making a fine short film. Indeed since there are few proven paths to monetization, short film is usually either a playground for the experimental, or a proving ground for the up and coming. […]
The Autobiography of Tom Stern, Chapter Six: The New Science
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008dir: Tom Stern, 9:20—Beginning a new relationship can be tough, tougher still when you’re not who you once were and your ex’s Fall (particularly derogatory) and Winter (quite competitive) live with with Him and constantly weigh in on the snow cone conversions he has with She. Confused?
The Autobiography of Tom Stern, Chapter Six: The New […]
Le Paysagiste/Mindscape
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Jacques Drouin, 7:31—Both this week and last, we have decided to hook you up with exemplary films that also happen to live at two of the finer resources for animation on the web. Last week with Ah, L’amour, Hertzfeldt was brought to computer screens via The Animation Show, the web presence of the venerable traveling […]
Balance
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007dir: Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein, 7:23—A platform floats in a neutral space. Strange men, identical except for the numbers on their back, appearing as though out of some dystopian future, must work in concert to prevent the platform from tipping. The emergence of a strange box, a new development in this closed and sterile […]
Far West
Sunday, October 14th, 2007dir: Nieto, 4:34—When a film follows no recognizable story pattern with no character, conflict or resolution, it is often labeled by scholars as an “experimental” film. A label typically placed on films with spinning shapes and jarring noises to be appreciated by small “in” crowds. Having painfully sat through many of these, I admit there […]
The Heart of the World
Monday, September 17th, 2007dir: Guy Maddin, 6:05—We veer into the realm of the avant garde with The Heart of the World, a short film directed by Guy Maddin: cinephile, auteur, Canadian. If you watch this film without reading the review, you might mistake it for some sort of silent-era classic, digitized and given new life through Youtube. But […]
Birds
Monday, July 16th, 2007Dogs love to jump. Click image to watch the film at iFilm.com
dir: Pleix + Vitalic, 3:04—Man’s best friend flutters weightlessly through this hypnotic music video. Vitalic’s White Labels provides the soundtrack as dogs are hurled into the air in slow motion. The dogs courageously cross into unknown territory, surrendering control of their surroundings to the […]