BBC’s Saxondale

Posted by Ajit on November 8, 2009 @ 4:18 am | Comment

More clips available down on the side here. Just fantastic. I doubt they can bring this over to the US as easily they did with The Office.

Filed Under Laugh out funny, Pathetic Losers, Stoned-like, Television Shows

Skhizein

Posted by DeK on October 25, 2009 @ 3:41 am | Comment

skhizein

Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely ninety-one centimeters from himself.

Skhizein is short film by Jérémy Clapin (previously: Une histoire vertebrale) you should get while it’s hot…

Watch it.

via Inspirational

Filed Under Alienation, Animation - Pixney, Burton Universe, Cool Graphics, Cool Like that, Fiction, Internal Conflict, Pathetic Losers, Quiet Laughter, Shorts

Days Like This – Loneliness

Posted by Ajit on October 17, 2009 @ 11:28 pm | Comment

Days Like This – Loneliness from Narfnarf.

Filed Under Alienation, Animation - Pixney, Grab Your Tissues, Pathetic Losers

ZooLogic

Posted by DeK on October 11, 2009 @ 6:38 am | Comment

A penguin and gorilla team up to lead the other animals in a comedic revolution against a zoo keeper who just will not leave them alone.

Directed by Nicole Mitchell. Winner of a Student Academy Award 2008.

Watch it.

Filed Under Animation - Pixney, Fiction, Laugh out funny, Pathetic Losers, Revenge, Shorts

Accro

Posted by DeK on July 25, 2009 @ 3:49 pm | Comment

A film that offers a reflection on addiction: we see the characters struggling, trapped in the gears of mechanisms, in the proper sense, which they can’t escape.

Short animated movie by three students of the Ensad: Marie Opron, Léonard Cohen, David Martin.

Watch Accro.

Filed Under Animation - Pixney, Fiction, Internal Conflict, Pathetic Losers, Quiet Laughter, Shorts

Elvis Perkins In Dearland – “Chains, Chains, Chains”

Posted by Ajit on July 4, 2009 @ 8:05 am | Comment

Another beauty from the Sean Pecknold. The mood is just right. More formats available here.

Filed Under Cool Graphics, Internal Conflict, Music Video, Pathetic Losers

Low Budget

Posted by Ajit on June 4, 2009 @ 10:22 pm | Comment

Fantastic comedic series. I am hooked.

Official site.

Filed Under Laugh out funny, Parodies, Pathetic Losers, Podcasts & Vlogs

Frumpy Franny

Posted by Ajit on June 4, 2009 @ 10:17 pm | Comment

I have so been there.

Filed Under Laugh out funny, Pathetic Losers, Shorts

Cotton Stones

Posted by Ajit on May 25, 2009 @ 12:38 am | Comment

Cotton Stones from Jonathan Entwistle.

I just love these talented young actors. Wow. Strong in every element but the performances carry it.

Filed Under Awkward Teens, Bitter After-Taste, Fiction, Friendship, Internal Conflict, Pathetic Losers, Shaky Camera Realism, Shorts

Requiem of a Dream

Posted by Ajit on January 18, 2009 @ 9:51 pm | 1 Comment

One of the great American movies available in full for US viewers.

Watch it.

Filed Under Disturbing, Features, Internal Conflict, Painfully Real, Pathetic Losers, The Beauty of Ugliness

Boy with the Wet Thumb

Posted by Ajit on December 29, 2008 @ 10:48 pm | Comment

More information.

Filed Under Exotic, Pathetic Losers, Quiet Laughter, Shorts, Squigglebooth

A Pickled Sunday

Posted by DeK on December 29, 2008 @ 4:46 am | Comment

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

Interview

via Directors Notes

Filed Under Alienation, Fiction, Internal Conflict, Lynchian Weirdness, Music Video, Pathetic Losers

Unlocked

Posted by DeK on November 30, 2008 @ 12:10 pm | Comment

Unlocked is the story of a teenager, Abby, coping with her mother’s terminal illness. When a charming man soliciting for cancer research stops her on the street, she sees in him someone who has shared her experience.

Directed by Daryl Wein.

Watch it. (Quicktime)

via Short of the Week

Filed Under Decadence, Drama, Fiction, Internal Conflict, Pathetic Losers, Shorts