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Jettison Your Loved Ones

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

dir: Ray Tintori, 6min—Sheer exuberance. The web is populated with a lot of lo-fi, shoestring budget work, but admittedly few have a vision or voice. That does not apply to Jettison your Loved Ones, a student film by young up and comer Ray Tintori, which oozes with charming quirk and character.
It is almost detrimental to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Pin Point

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

James Kim, 3:43—Created during his stint in the Character Animation program at CalArts School of Film & Video, James Kim’s Pin Point is a beautifully sketched short in which a young girl is snatched away from her father’s funeral by a kind-looking orphanage caregiver who ends up being anything but caring or giving.
A finalist for […]

A Portrait of Envy

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Enrique Garcia, 9:07-Cementing her status as a promising young actress, Riley Rose, star of the award-winning “Archer House” short film, shows up again in A Portrait of Envy, a 9-minute short film written and directed by Enrique Garcia. Rose portrays Gillian, a timid yet artistic young woman who believes she’s finally won over Jerry (Kris […]

Ah L’Amour

Monday, December 24th, 2007

Don Hertzfeldt, 2:21—This gut-busting yet painfully honest animation showcases the horrific encounters of a genuine man’s quest to find love. His honest attempts to make friendly conversation with each encounter are ill-received, each woman bringing the attempt to a different brutally violent end. The common thread from commenters describe the film as, “both funny and […]

Living in the Dark

Monday, November 26th, 2007

dir: Thomas Leung, 3:52—A dreamy story about the cherished gift of sight. Filmmaker, Thomas, reaches to the depths of his own childhood and pulls out this warming anecdote of a time when an eye wound threatened his lifelong ability to see. Unappreciative of his sight at the time, he soon became completely dependent on others […]

Badgered

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

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dir: Sharon Colman, 7:05—In this Oscar-nominated short, an underground badger struggles for some peaceful sleep amidst obnoxious crows and secret missile launches. Without hitting audiences over the head, Badgered manages to slip in a subtle environmental message—knowing very well that the first step to spreading your message is getting others to […]

Collision

Monday, September 10th, 2007

dir: Max Hattler, 2:29—As another 9/11 anniversary approaches, the need to reflect and examine . Few works so elegantly capture the tensions between America and the Islamic world as Max Hattler’s Collision. This abstract animation uses simple geometric elements from national flags to create a dizzying, kaleidoscope of cultures. America’s stars and stripes impede on […]