Short Films
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Remember C, that sci-fi short that was in need of crowd funding to make cool little shapeships and old-school effects? Well, it got the funding, and as promised, the filmmakers used that money to made their cool little spaceships, and they're giving the now-finished film an onl... / Continue →
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The new year is upon us, and to ring in 2013, Michel Gondry decided to do more than just his usual dropping of a tinfoil ball and uncorking of a foamy bottle of cotton batting and half-remembered dreams. This year, the director has wished us a happy new year with a new animated... / Continue →
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Because A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving doesn't have enough frustrated, obdurate questioning of the holiday's well-accepted conventions.... / Continue →
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Shown before screenings of Brave and already an Academy Award nominee, Pixar's La Luna is now available--at least for a while--as a convenient webpage video, so now's your chance to enjoy it again or for the first time. It is so whimsical and charmingly crafted, you'll hardly n... / Continue →
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Written and directed by Christopher Kezelos, The Maker is a charming little five-minute short about a toothy, f-hole-headed creature who "races against time to make the most important and beautiful creation of his life." I won't spoil what "the most important and beautiful crea... / Continue →
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Because flimsy, half-naked effigies are the sincerest form of flattery, artist Niege Borges created Bill Wearing Socks as a "thank you card to Bill Murray," displaying Murray's many iconic costumes folded over a little Murray paper doll. This will probably be the only video "th... / Continue →
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Seven years after the events of The Dark Knight Rises, and eleven years since the madcap mafia antics of Corky Romano, where are Bane and Chris Kattan? Oh, here they are.... / Continue →
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Does Superman's Kryptonian dog, Krypto, have super dog poops? Good question! And one that's explored in Brett Underhill's charming little animated short, Superman's Best Friend. It's not exactly unsafe for work, but just so you know, the film does include depictions of Krypto's... / Continue →
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If you ever travel to Paris and get kidnapped by an Albanian human trafficking ring, and your father is not Liam Neeson, this is what is going to happen to you. I'm sorry.... / Continue →
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To be included with the home video release of The Avengers, Item 47 is the latest Marvel One-Shot short that--like A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer--provides some exposition between the cash register noises of the big Marvel tentpole films. This one stars Lizz... / Continue →
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Driven by the murders of his fictional wife and daughter, and by how Ray Stevenson stole his part in the most recent Punisher film, Thomas Jane bitterly returns to the role of comic book vigilante Frank Castle in Dirty Laundry, an unsanctioned ten-minute Punisher short debuted ... / Continue →
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Rotoscoping Super Friends Batman, Aquaman, Superman, and Robin into the Golden Girls intro, artist Kevin Bapp has created something crazy and magical that I have to assume will forever be the acme of superhero-meets-'80s/'90s sitcom cross-overs: Super Golden Friends. I know wha... / Continue →
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If Michael Bay's upcoming Ninja Turtles is the wrong way to reinterpret the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (until absolutely any evidence suggests otherwise, let's assume that to be the case), then this is the right way: a charming animated tribute that stylishly re-imagines the ... / Continue →
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Written, directed and edited by Ruairi Robinson for 45k euro, Blinky is a sharp-looking 12-minute short that stars Where the Wild Things Are's Max Records as an petulant, spoiled child whose relationship with an indentured companion robot deteriorates in some fairly surprising ... / Continue →
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Making the most awesomely rotoscoped film recreation since Terminator was rendered in highlighter, artist Anders Ramsell has animated over twelve minutes of Blade Runner using over 3000 beautifully-hazy aquarelle paintings. It's all the excitement of Ridley Scott's enduring sci... / Continue →
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Using only items you'd find laying around your bed--crumpled sheets, rubber mats, waterproof tarp, bikini-clad Playmobil figures--Karim Rejeb put together this super-charming stop-motion animated short about surfing, Perfect Holiday. If this does not get you excited about summe... / Continue →
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Further evidence Bob Balaban definitely needs his own PBS children's program, here's a Moonrise Kingdom companion piece in which Balaban introduces animated sequences depicting fictional kids' books from the film, as read by young co-star Kara Hayward. LeVar Burton should defin... / Continue →
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Look back on how Tim Burton made a bunch of movies with Tim Burton: A Filmography, an animated short Martin Woutisseth made as a comprehensive tour of the Burton oeuvre. The recent Dark Shadows is not included, but Planet of the Apes most certainly is, so call Mark Wahlberg in ... / Continue →
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Omar, Kima, D, Snoop, and Bubbles have reunited on-stage for some catchy song-and-dance numbers that will forever alter your understanding of the urban individual versus the sociopolitical establishment: The Wire: The Musical. It is everything Shrek the Musical tried and failed... / Continue →
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Like his previous videos--123Films, ABCinema, and The Colors in Film (which isn't racist)--Evan Seitz's GeoVideos presents you with brief sounds and iconography from a handful of thematic films and asks you to guess what they are. This time, the theme is countries, so keep that... / Continue →
