Alice & The White Hair
Surreal. A short shot like a music video, with a narrative that plays hide ‘n seek.
We Are Water
The video for Health‘s We are Water is a grotesque take on a cliché of horror movies (and music videos too!) The music video has been directed by Eric Wareheim (of Tim and Eric) and produced at Funk Factory.
Watch We are Water.
20,000 Spoonfuls of Terror
The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon by Richard Gale.
The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon by Richard Gale
For Whom the Bell Tolls
…the title sequence to Ruben Fleischer‘s Zombieland does not back down. Flashes of jarring death slathered with slow speed splatter document a kinetic finality that does not force its humor. We see every black bauble of biohazardous blood upsurge and dot the landscape of a crippled Earth.
U can has it at Art of the Title along with an interview with Ben Conrad of Logan.
Alma
Red House Painters – Song For A Blue Guitar
The Cask of Amontillado
To mark the bicentennial of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe: January 19th, 2009; this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe‘s dark and twisted tale of vengeance… Produced and directed by Mario Cavalli.
Requiescat in pace.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Dix
Dark, harrowing short film showing the complexities of psychological and obsessive behavior.
Directed by BIF. Visual effects: The Mill.
Watch Dix. (Flash Video)
via Ehrensenf
Mamá
Two young sisters do everything they can to avoid confronting their mother, who seems to be visiting from a strange — and very scary –- planet in a different universe than the one they inhabit.
A short movie directed by Andy Muschietti and produced by Barbara Muschietti, soon(?) to be made into a feature film.
Watch it. (Flash Video) [Thanks, T.]
Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island trailer
This is unlike anything Scorsese has done before. Watch the trailer here.
Forgotten Places
Forgotten Places from ?Zac Boyet?.
A textbook for future horror film set designers.
Love Hurts
A horror film that can scare you straight.
Ida’s Luck
Beautifully storytelling of a little girl with dark eyes and mysterious powers.
Part one & two. More Skary. (thanks T. Storm)
The Look
A lot of interesting choices in writing, pacing and acting.
Best Online Videos for 2008
We have posted some wonderful stuff this year, our annual best-of list gives us a chance to celebrate some of them. Dek has a great round up of his favorites. Also, our 2006, 2007 lists.
Shorts
Best Short: Glory at Sea – A 25 minute tour de force that uses a contemporary tragedy (Katrina disaster) to create a powerful myth that seems as old as the hills.
Special Mentions:
Best Stop Motion: Illuminant – To experience this on a big screen like I did at Carrboro Film Festival was incredible.
We posted quite a few innovative stop-motion video including Lucia & Adjustment
Best Short Doc: Bullet Proof Vest
Best Hidden Product Placement: The Ramp
Best Acting in Shorts: R.L. Jackson & Tori Lee in Remember When
Best Abstract film: Pencil Face
Also:
Special mentions for Animations:
Web
Best Web Video: Dr. Horrible – It is nice to see big name talent doing web content. It certainly lived up to the hype. Hopefully, this is a sign of good things to come.
Special mentions:
- The Guild
- Goodie Bag
- West Side (nothing since June)
- Rhett & Link
- Epic Fu
Music Video
Best Music video: Fleet Foxes: White Winter Hymnal – After a year full of shocking videos, especially in content, the one video that haunted me was Sean Pecknold‘s animated classic. Simple in style, resonant story and a great fuckin’ song.
Sexiest Music Video of the year: Toe Jam
Special mentions Music videos:
- How much of a woman
- Damien Jurado – Caskets
- Bjork – Wanderlust
- MGMT – Time to Pretend
- The New Pornographers – Myriad Harbour
Commercials
Best Commercial: JC Penney: Aviator – Also the cutest video of the year. The direction is pitch perfect.
- Carrboro Film Festival (it is good to love one’s own work)
- Zürich Chamber Orchestra
Other awards
Best Interview of the Year: Katie Couric’s interview with Sarah Palin – Unintentionally hilarious that changed the course of the presidential elections.
Best Parody: SNL’s version of Katie Couric’s interview with Sarah Palin – Saturday Night Live came back with a bang. Even more wicked than the original.
Best Online Radio: This American Life: Super
Note: Some of these videos were not released in 2008, they are included here because this is when we discovered them.
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