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Café

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

dir: Marta Mackova, 5min—Café is a stylish short revealing the imaginative interplay in a bar where a lone girl sips her drink and eyes up the talent. She has her gaze and aspirations set on the quiet guy diligently reading his book. Meanwhile the (buxom) bar girl tidies up the tables much to the delight […]

The Big Empty

Monday, July 14th, 2008

dir: Lisa Chang & Newton Thomas Sigel, 21 min—You knew it was coming—a film from the YouTube Screening Room—well, it’s here, The Big Empty. It’s part of the second round of films from the Screening Room (4 new films every 2 weeks). While most of the attention has been around last year’s Academy Award nominated […]

En Tus Brazos

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

dir: François-Xavier Goby, Matthieu Landour and Edouard Jouret, 5 min—The one thing that surveying films in all their vast variety on the internet teaches you is that great work can spring up from anywhere. A kid working away on a laptop in his bedroom is just as likely to blow you away with creativity and […]

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 […]

Une Histoire Vertebrale

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Jérémy Clapin, 9:10—In the eternal race to find love and happiness, some unfortunate souls start with a handicap. It is the case of the man we join as we start jump into Une Histoire Vertebrale (A Backbone Tale), a short animated movie by Jérémy Clapin, produced by Strapontin.
A malformation of his backbone forces our hero […]

The Autobiography of Tom Stern, Chapter Six: The New Science

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

dir: 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 […]

O Valencia!

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Online video has got everybody all frothed up and excited, consumers, producers, advertisers, suits. But a lot of people are getting paid big bucks to try and figure how to bring the participatory culture of the web to old media. Even though their products still represent giant forces in the formation of our culture, […]

Father and Daughter

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

dir: Michael Dudok de Wit, 8:00—In 2000, Father and Daughter (watch it here) won the Academy Award for Best Short Film for its Dutch director Michael Dudok de Wit. For such a short (eight minutes) movie it has a remarkable capacity to move an audience. The story of a father who leaves his daughter […]

Mermaid

Monday, January 28th, 2008

dir: Aleksandr Petrov, 9:48—Oscar nominations came out earlier this week, so congratulations to all the nominees in live-action and animation. A special Short of the Week kudo goes to Suzie Templeton whose stop-motion film Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf was nominated in the animation category. Her previous short Dog, was one of our Best Of […]