Short of the Moment | November 18, 2009
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Third film in in a series on body image by acclaimed director Jesse Epstein. This short film follows Wet Dreams and False Images and The Guarantee in probing societies perverse obsession with…
SOTW | November 18, 2009 | 3 Comments
Welcome El Vez
El Vez—a guest writer on past film picks—is joining the Short of the Week staff as a regular writer. So if you’ve enjoyed To Build A Home, Jojo In The…
Short of the Moment | November 13, 2009 | 2 Comments
Kisses From Paris
Evidently Yvan Attal, who directed a segment of the recent New York, I Love You (the one with Ethan Hawke), never got over being snubbed for Paris J’taime. Going back to…
Announcement | November 12, 2009
Vimeo Arrives on iPhone
Life is grand for iphone users. Vimeo, video host of choice for the artsy crowd, is now available on the mobile phone. Things are just starting, so the whole collection…
Short of the Moment | November 11, 2009
Between
This is a great collage of moments. As the name suggests, many of these moments occur between places or events in time. Filmmaker, Tim Bollinger, and cinematographer, Daniel Meinl, do…
Short of the Moment | November 5, 2009
Stella Artois Winner — The Perfect Time
Another recent online contest winner to share with you. Stella Artois, responsible for the crappy short films you get to see instead of trailers when you go to the movies,…
Short of the Moment | November 2, 2009 | 3 Comments
Johnny 7 Combo “I Wipe My Nose On You”
The motion designer, Andy Martin, has put together an interesting music video for a long forgotten 1970’s British punk band. Though 30 years defunct, the Johnny 7 Combo has nevertheless…
Short of the Moment | October 26, 2009 | 2 Comments
The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon
This extended fake-trailer/short film from Richard Gale has been the fan fave of the recent festival season, just laying waste to audiences wherever it has played. It’s been online via…
Announcement | October 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
Watch NFB Films on the iPhone
Via CNet, I’ve learned that the National Film Board of Canada, that awesome sponsor of innumerable award-winning short films, is now offering over 500 films available for viewing on your…
Short of the Moment | October 21, 2009
Chop Cup
Check out this beautiful, mind-bending film, Chop Cup, by We Are OM. Watch it more than once to catch all the details.
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SOTW | October 20, 2009
Follow Your Favorite Writer
We all have our tastes when it comes to short films. We writers thought we’d make it easy for you to find your taste by allowing you to follow our…
Short of the Moment | October 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
We Were Once a Fairy Tale
They had me at the title. Great, great title. Even without it though, with two artists on top of their games, there was no way I wasn’t going to be…
Short of the Moment | October 2, 2009
Olympic Challenge Winner— Playing Tennis With Jean-Luc Godard
You may have heard the news today. Despite President Obama’s personal lobbying, the International Olympic Committee snubbed Chicago as host for the 2016 games in favor of Rio. It was…
Short of the Moment | October 1, 2009
Babelgum Winner—The Ladies
Babelgum has always been interesting to me. One of the most well-funded and artistically ambitious video-streaming sites, it always seems on the verge of being undone by a clunky interface…
Filmmaker Update | October 1, 2009
Combo
Another one of our reviews from this last week that have disappeared, Combo is another round of surreal stop-motion from last year’s SotW favorite artist, Muto’s Blu. This time he garners…
Short of the Moment | October 1, 2009
Doorpost Winner—The Butterfly Circus
I’ve developed a an unfortunate habit of writing my posts directly in Wordpress, so the last few reviews have gone missing. I don’t feel like rewriting them right now, but…
SOTW | September 30, 2009
Site: Update
ASA has been working hard to rip out the malicious code infecting Shortoftheweek, which had been responsible for the RSS spam and general site sluggishness. As a result we were…
Short of the Moment | September 24, 2009
Dead All Along by Giles Timms
Giles Timms has created this Edward Gore-inspired music video for Ceri Frost. Giles is an MFA student at UCLA with a knack for telling macabre stories through animated collage. His…
Short of the Moment | September 21, 2009 | 3 Comments
Project:Involve Winner — Market Price
With Summer drawing to a close it seems to be the season of online short film contests. A bunch of high profile ones recently drew to a close, and since…
Article | September 17, 2009
A Call for New Pricing Models for Digital Content
I was reading NewTeeVee recently and their weekend question caught my attention: How Much is a Movie Worth? The standard now seems to be $.99 rental, $4.99 old release, $9.99 new release.…
Filmmaker Update | September 15, 2009
Jossie Malis, Bendito Machine 2 & 3
Jossie Malis has been hard at work expanding the genius behind his original Bendito Machine to a larger audience. The striking visual style (dark silhouette shapes against brightly colored backgrounds), nuanced…
Announcement | August 30, 2009 | 3 Comments
100 Important Directors of Animated Short Films
Nothing excites the internet masses (yours truly included) like a best of list. A new one out lists a bunch of really important animation directors and their representative works. Created…
Short of the Moment | August 26, 2009
American History
A 1992 student work from Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park, that plays very much like a precursor to that series. The audio and video quality is a bit iffy,…
Q&A | August 24, 2009 | 4 Comments
Q&A with Robin Risser (Solitude)
How did Solitude come about?
Solitude is my thesis project for my degree at ESAG-Penninghen Paris. It’s a universel feeling that reaches everyone one of us at some point of time regardless of…
Short of the Moment | August 18, 2009
Yankee Gal & Gary
I can’t know, since I don’t live in France or know any French animators, but in my mind I like to believe that there is an epic rivalry between the…





