Short of the Week

Comedy

Comedy about Love in Live-Action
Luke Snellin / 3 min / UK / 2010

Music is the shortcut into your crush’s heart in this short and sweet BAFTA nominee.

Comedy about Love in 3D Animation

Two star-crossed octopuses put their tentacles on the line to save each other from a tasty demise.

Comedy about Nothing in Live-Action
Daren Rabinovitch / 3 min / USA / 2009

We get a brief look at the daily life of God in this short from the Whophin collection.

Comedy about Love in Live-Action
Patrick Hughes / 11 min / Australia / 2009

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.

Comedy about Love in Live-Action
Patrik Eklund / 22 min / Sweden / 2009

A young, amateur magician gets his chance to make an impression on an attractive new neighbor when a gig for his father’s birthday party opens up.—A Sundance 10/10 film: currently offline

Comedy about Love in Live-Action
H. Blake Edwards / 5 min / USA / 2009

Quirky, romantic micro-budget film is the winner of Youtube’s Project Direct 2008

Comedy about Love in Live-Action
Devi Snively / 7 min / USA / 2008

Possibly “the finest low-budget vampire beach movie of all time.”

Comedy about Love in Animation
Marta Mackova / 5 min / Czech Republic / 2008

In this minimalistic animation out of the Czech Republic, a young lady indulges in the joys of people-watching at an outdoor café, but she is being watched too.

Comedy about Sexuality in Animation
Arthur De Pins / 9 min / France / 2008

One day, Gerald wakes up as a woman… The adventures of a man transformed into woman and who discovers a new life in a new body.

Comedy about Childhood in Live-Action
Michelle Lehman / 7 min / Australia / 2008

A story about “a little girl who likes a little boy, and a little boy who likes his BMX bike”, this light-hearted film about young love won 2008′s Tropfest.

Comedy about Love in Animation
Lev Yilmaz / 3 min / USA / 2008

How to break up in 64 easy steps, as told from the insightful, dry humor of Lev and his lo-tech Tales of Mere Existence animated series.

Comedy about Friendship in Live-Action
Bob Odenkirk / 12 min / USA / 2008

From the mind of Bob Odenkirk comes this very natural comedy about two real-life friends, Derek and Simon, and their struggle to find love.

Comedy about Greed in Live-Action
J J Keith / 18 min / UK / 2007

Quirky British comedy about a crook who finds himself trapped in the home of a person away on holiday.

Comedy about Nature in Animation
Sharon Colman / 7 min / UK / 2007

A tired badger battles with a pair of noisy crows for peaceful rest, but inadvertently falls into a much bigger mess when an underground missile station is placed underneath the badger’s dwelling.

Comedy about Nothing in Live-Action
College Humor / 3 min / USA / 2007

Just another day at the High Times Editorial Office where real work is always difficult to accomplish and employees are fired for passing their drug tests.

Comedy about Love in Animation
Jonathan Nix / 6 min / Australia / 2007

How to win the heart of the girl next door when all you have to communicate is an old, unreliable tape deck.