Short of the Week

Other Worlds

Adventure about Other Worlds in Stop-Motion
Tom Jenkins / 3 min / UK / 2011

When everyone leaves for the night, the objects in the office take over the computers to experience the outside world in this stop-motion animation powered by Google Street View.

Sci-Fi about Other Worlds in Special FX

We’ve been attacked again—only this time it’s our own fault.

Sci-Fi about Other Worlds in 3D Animation
Jesús Orellana / 10 min / Spain / 2011

Absolutely Stunning. Is it from SQUARE? PRODUCTION I.G? No, the most perfect realization of the anime-style in 3D comes from a single young animator out of Spain.

Adventure about Other Worlds in Flash Animation
Mike Roberts / 6 min / Canada / 2011

A man takes a ride through the afterlife with four rockabilly musicians in this rich animation featuring music by The Sadies.

Horror about Other Worlds in Live-Action

3 new visions of horror from leading filmmakers as they adapt video game classics to the world of short film.

Sci-Fi about Other Worlds in Special FX
Dan Trachtenberg / 6 min / USA / 2011

Impressive effects highlight this fan-film for the hit 2007 puzzle video game. Dan Trachtenberg, host of the hit “Totally Rad Show” directs.

Branded Film about Other Worlds in Special FX
Seth Worley / 9 min / USA / 2011

When activated, the “plot device” spontaneously transforms our hero’s world into any number of cliched film scenarios. A hit branded film for software company Red Giant.

Music Video about Other Worlds in Animation
Tony Comley / 4min min / UK / 2011

Galactic battle, a lone panda pilot. A trippy 8 bit inspired music video from Tony Comley.

Experimental about Other Worlds in Interactive
Chris Milk / 5 min / USA / 2011

A new interactive music video for the concept album Rome—a collaboration between Danger Mouse and composer Daniele Luppi inspired by the music from old spaghetti westerns. An HTML5 project for use in Google Chrome

Music Video about Other Worlds in Animation
Jason Pamment, Ari Gibson / 4 min / Australia / 2011

Incredibly rich & lyrical music video that will sweep you into another world from the Australian band, The Aubreys.

Sci-Fi about Other Worlds in Special FX
Mamoru Oshii / 7 min / Japan / 2010

A female warrior battles an unstoppable foe in this sci-fi film from Ghost in the Shell creator Mamoru Oshii with an ending that’s difficult to explain.

Sci-Fi about Other Worlds in Flash Animation
Jake Armstrong / 5 min / USA / 2010

A grizzled spaceman comes to Alpha-9 to hunt down a vicious monster.

Thriller about Other Worlds in Claymation

A disturbing train ride through the depths of her psychology awaits Madame Tutli Putli in this astonishing claymation that was Oscar-nominated in 2007.

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Adventure about Other Worlds in 3D Animation
Shane Acker / 10 min / USA / 2009

The most acclaimed student work of the decade is this post-apocalyptic CG action short out of UCLA, which won the director the right to adapt it to the big screen.

Music Video about Other Worlds in Stop-Motion
/ 4 min / UK / 2009

Inventive music video for Coldplay featuring lead singer Chris Martin as an explorer of new worlds and realized entirely in drawn chalk animation.

Music Video about Other Worlds in Puppetry
Mitch Stratten / 4 min / South Africa / 2009

Peek into the bizarre world of South African musician, Nodern, where rabid puppets run rampant through open fields.

Sci-Fi about Other Worlds in 3D Animation
Ian Wharton, Edward Shires / 4 min / UK / 2009

Day follows night, follows day, follows night. That is until the natural poetry of motion is thrown out of sync by mechanical failure.

Sci-Fi about Other Worlds in Animation
Carson Mell / 5 min / USA / 2009

Haunting, but humorous piece focusing on a weary inter-dimensional traveler as he struggles with isolation on a remote world he dubs “Oasis”—A Sundance 10/10 film: currently offline

Dark Comedy about Other Worlds in 3D Animation
Ruairi Robinson / 3 min / Ireland / 2008

What happens after death? A soldier is about to find out, in this 3-d animation that was nominated for an Oscar in 2002.

Adventure about Other Worlds in 3D Animation
Gaëlle Denis / 6 min / UK / 2007

A Japanese transplant finds herself in the cold heart of a gloomy and uninviting London. But there’s more that lies beyond the surface…