High Maintenance
Mechanical sex is the worst.
“High Maintenance tells a personal story about the power struggle in a relationship through the high-concept conventions of the sci-fi genre.”
A short movie by Phillip Van.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Your Mother
“Your mama is so fat…” jokes in short film format.
Spotted Spots
Three commercials that make a good use of a bad/wrong idea… Or viceversa?
Watch I Wish.
Watch The Recruit.
Watch Birds.
The Ramp
Let’s say you’re a German car manifacturer, and you need to launch your new car on the American market. What do you need? Well, a pair of wings, and a huge ramp!
It’s Rampenfest!
Alternate link: The Ramp.
Prevent It ads
A series of Canadian public service announcements in which people have various fatal accidents that could have been prevented. What is really effective about these ads is that the accidents are incredibly short and violent, the kind to get a reaction out of everyone. The first one is especially troubling.
Psyop – Adidas – Hu Jia
Beautifully written and directed.
Standard Operating Procedure
Trailer for the new Errol Morris documentary on Abu Ghraib prison is riveting. BTW, as some of you might know, we have a category dedicated to the Errol Morris documentary style: recreations, meditative music, eloquent interviewees and detective work disguised as film research.
The Legend of Boruta
The year is 1939; Nazi Germany has recently invaded Poland, and many small towns and villages have already become victims of the German raid. A regiment of Nazi soldiers arrive upon a small church nestled in the sprawling wheat fields surrounding the small town of Leczyca. As they enter the church grounds, a low-ranking soldier is ordered into the catacombs deep beneath the church to search for valuables and items of historical and cultural significance for appropriation. Reluctantly, the young soldier heads down, and discovers he has been tainted by the stolen goods, further building the Legend of Boruta.
An animated grad-film project made by Bartosz Nowakowski at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design.
Watch as Quicktime or Flash Video
Redneck Hunter Saftey
The world’s funniest joke, as voted by Internet users…
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Strange Invaders
An anti-procreation video. Not really but that is what it feels like. All in good fun, of course.
From the Office
A dark comedy, circa 1992, in which an utterly random event reveals the most inhuman aspects of life in a bureaucratic system. A strange substance flies in from nowhere and lands on an unwitting Administrative Analyst, who is slowly consumed. Much paper-filing and bumbling ensues.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Indie Fever
There is a growing disease spreading around the world: indie filmmaking. Scott Simons who runs one of my favorite film blogs is one of the creative minds behind this.
Pushkin
Next time, don’t bother. Rough on the edges but it works in sad, funny way.
Fool Throttle
Created by Reelworks animators and directors Todd Hemker and Morgan Williams in an era of rampant road rage, Fool Throttle is a cautionary tale about how aggressive behavior on the road leads to a no-win situation.
Watch it in high res (MPEG-4) or low res (Flash Video)
My First Crush
An animated film based on interviews with people about their first crushes.
A final film project at Kingston University. Animated and Directed by Julia Pott.
Watch as MOV or Flash Video.
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