Short of the Moment

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…

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…

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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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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Now that we’ve kicked off our new series with Oktapodi, we’ve got a bunch of great student stuff coming your way. Believe me, it’s already cued up in Wordpress. But…

Babelgum, a service I’m not really in love with, has attempted to overcome their clunky interface and low video quality by scoring exclusives. This one, Strawberry Swing is the latest Coldplay…

Vice Versa is a fun short animation that roughly follows the history of industrialization and its balance with the environment. Progress begins slowly then progresses at an accelerated rate until we finally…

Our favorite Aussie stuntman turned director is back in another piece featuring humans colliding with cars. Nash Edgerton, director of Spider and member of the formidable Blue Tongue group, resurfaces with…

I first looked at this short on an early Wholphin collection. It’s simple, well done, and bizarrely entertaining. Watch it—give it time—and you’ll be rewarded with a laugh.
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I find that a lot of the most striking short films I see have a commerce aspect to them. Films like the There is Only One Sun or The Shock Doctrine which…

A great little sci-fi film I found via our friends at Ticklebooth. A perfect dramatization of some of the spiritual/emotional issues still to be worked out as medicine moves forward.…

Just a couple weeks after MarBelle featured his bizarre, special effects laden film Handmade, Motionographer pointed me towards an equally bizarre new piece from CISMA, Le Sens Propre. It is a…

(Readers emailed me yesterday that the file was taken down. It now seems to be back. Thanks for the heads up.)
A new animation conceived by the genius of Chris Ware…

Big Buck Bunny is a worthy entry into the rich history of animated violence. An obese, sweet-natured bunny is picked upon by a trio of shady little woodland critters. He meekly…

Just a little something to get you through the weekend. D.E.B.S is a classic GLBT short that’s fun instead of weighty. Made in 2003 right in the middle of the Charlies…