Boy with the Wet Thumb
Gabe & Max’s Internet Thing
Learn about the internet and this thing called blogs. Don’t forget about email.
A Pickled Sunday
The shadow of a mundane monday breaks into the lazy sunday of a disaffected salaryman. Or maybe it’s the opposite?
MP4: Watch – Download
Flash: Vimeo
via Directors Notes
JibJab: 2008 Year In Review
It must be December – snow is falling, children are writing letters to Santa and we’re dragging 2008 through the mud in our all-singing, all-dancing, all-out year-in-review. Baby New Year ’08 takes you on a tour of all of the good, bad, and worse the past year had to offer, all at breakneck speed. We’re giving society a primo wedgie – everyone watch, point and laugh!
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Edicisum
Eerie abstractness in this short movie (and/or music video for Isambard Khroustaliov‘s Musicide) directed by Candas Sisman.
Watch Edicisum. (MPEG-4)
Bowerbirds – In Our Talons
The video takes the visual spectacle of a nature documentary and puts it into a stop-motion animated world. We explore 3 magical creatures from 3 different lands, equally beautiful yet doomed by the hand of man.
Music video directed by Alan Poon and produced at Circle. Director of photography: Adam Makarenko.
Watch it. (MPEG-4)
Oomper Oomper
A fractured palindrome that is broken into 2 parts: a forward and reverse version. These two interlocking pieces form one cohesive whole, centering on ideas of perception, memory, direction, life and death.
A short film (should I say two short films?) by Michael Robinson with music by Ant Yeti Ant.
Watch it. (MPEG-4)
Cecil and Britches – Cool Car Stew
Lovely b&w animation, I wish it had more content to go with it.
All Apologies
Hilarious little short by Marc Milstein about the excessive amount of apologies in social interactions. The lead actors (Michael Capes & Jason Shipman) are simply awesome. Get them a show already!
Benh Zeitlin – Glory At Sea
One of my favorite shorts of the year. One of the most gorgeous films, whether it be shorts or features, I have ever seen. Every shot tells its own little story.
A man comes back alive, in a post Katrina world, to lead a bunch of lost souls back to sea to meet their destiny. An great and important story told in the most beautiful way.
A classic, don’t miss this.
Some information about the project.
- Court 13 (the DVD is available for sale at their online store)
- Interview of the director
- Filmmaker Magazine mention
(If anyone has more links about the production, pass it on)
The Black Hole
A wonderful little film on greed.
Watch it (Thanks Jorge)
Validation
This short has audience winner written all over it (which it has won in bunches). Sweet, life-affirming and one of the best shorts I’ve seen this year.
François Macré – Thriller
I have always wanted to do this for a Radiohead song. Vocalize all the elements including instrumentation.
Long Jump
Here’s the new film by Ian Mackinnon and Dominic Parker made for Short and Sweet and Getty Images.
The challenges aim was to highlight the breadth and depth of content available at the Hulton Archive, which offers a unique resource to filmmakers and creatives alike.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
More? Adjustment is Ian’s graduation film at the RCA.
To Kill A Mockingbird title sequence
I forgot how beautiful this film was. The opening sequence is especially incrdible.
Watch the title sequence – I am seriously addicted to all of this.