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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…