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Brilliant stop-motion from Hayley Morris, a young animator working now for Curious Pictures. The 6 minute Undone was her thesis film from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, and…

This was a strong year for short films. I can tell by the divided results from our Oscar poll that had close battles in both the animated and live action categories.…

To get it out of the way in advance, this film is a bit graphic. That means boobies, hoo hoos and even a ding dong. What’s really graphic though for…

TropFest! ‘Tis truly excellent to have Australian short film goodness back in one’s life. I post the winners every year, so I don’t want to repeat myself too much, but…

I just wrote up an, unfortunately, negative review of Luke Doolan’s Oscar-nominated Miracle Fish, which gave me a chance to remark on the fantastic Blue-Tongue Film collective. NyTimes have gotten…

The Machine, by Rob Shaw of Bent Image Lab, is an entertaining stop-motion fable about a man-made machine who knows no bounds to his power. I’ve had this in my…

In a rare turn of events, a cursory web search has revealed that at least one of the Oscar live-action short films is online, Luke Doolan’s Miracle Fish. The animated…

Oscar season is upon us, and we have 10 strong short films nominated this year. Who do you think deserves the “little man”?

A new film from Spy Films is always an event. This is the house that brought us Alive in Joburg, which was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film, and Trevor Cawood’s Terminus,…

The 82nd Annual Oscar Nominated Short Films have been announced with a few surprises.

In keeping with the Sundance theme, this Short of the Moment is a documentary that was well-received at the 2003 festival. It is a portrait of Fred Harwin, who straddles…

Sundance kicked off tonight in Park City, Utah. I hadn’t heard any advance buzz about the 10/10 online series, a recent Sundance tradition that we covered last year, and so…

For once I didn’t have to look for a film, this one found me all by itself! Front page of the New York Times web site, in a fancy pull-down…

Animated cartoons that strike a chord with audiences young and old are the gold that the Hollywood studios dream. Too bad most end up smothered by pop culture references and…

It blew up last week after Motionographer blogged it, but through teasers and stills it would be in error to say it hadn’t been anticipated. The reason? CG so fine it’s…

As much as arbitrary demarcations of time (Happy New Year!) serve as an opportunity to reaffirm one’s faith in a better future, they are similarly useful in enforcing a reflection…

Our picks of the best short films from two thousand nine

Anxious for your creepy holiday films, I know, so allow me to present Alma. This 3D animation by Pixar alum, Rodrigo Blaas, is beautiful to watch and very well-crafted as a…

An extremely fun 4min no-budget short. Its runtime is small, but the length feels interminable—not because it’s dreck mind you, but because the minimalist suspense conjured by writer/director Damian McCarthy…

Doug Purver out of NYC runs a one-man production outfit called RoadNorth. This film was shot for Psst!3, but evolved into this 3 min gem about a boy fishing in…

Just because I write and edit for this site doesn’t mean I know all about what goes on. Like just the other day I went to our Archive page and saw…

Ghost House has just announced they’ve signed director, Federico Alvarez, to make a $30-$40 million feature film based primarily on the success of his short film, Panic Attack, that has…

It’s the 1970’s and Major League Baseball is far from the drug-scrutinized organization it is today. Pitcher, Dock Ellis, tells a hilarious, meandering story that leads him to one of…

The final 10 animations in the running for the upcoming Oscar nominations have officially been announced. Check out the previews of each film below. Which do you think deserves to…

Live Music is a short animation that has been buzzed about in creative and traditional media circles for several months now based primarily on its unique production history. Mass Animation, a…