Garbage Man
A short cardboard horror story starring Rebecca De Unamuno and Mr. President George W. Bush in the title role.
Produced, shot and edited by James Edwards. Directed by Henry Naylor.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Happy Anniversary
Careful what presents you get, especially when you live in a world half way between the Tim Burton-verse and the Sam Raimi-verse…
The short has been directed, shot, cut and scored Stuart MacKay Smith (previously here with Kali.)
Watch it. (MPEG-4)
Eric Avery - All Remote & No Control
New music video by Andrew Huang for Eric Avery “All Remote & No Control”. Perhaps not his best, but vegetation growing out of people can’t be so bad! Artist’s Website andrewthomashuang.com
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.
Tentacle
This powerful PSA for Dunkelziffer demonstrates the unbearable trauma, sexually abused children suffer from.
Directed by The Vikings, of Epuron’s fame.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
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
Das Clown
One day, as Mr Higgins reads out from a German book, Sparkles the clown doll comes to life and begins a serial killing spree with an assortment of sharp weapons.
Presented as an educational slideshow, the film has been written and directed by Tom E. Brown. Narration by John Popper.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Zoudov
A spy thriller with some office romance.
Tobias Stretch - Illuminant
One of the most visually striking films I have ever seen. Films are often described as dreamlike for a lack of words. Not the case with Illuminant which is certainly dreamlike. I don’t necessarily see my dreams in stop-motion but some of the imagery and feel of dreams would be impossible to recreate in another form.
Like dreams, some of the images from this film stick and others fade. Watching it again, I was once again surprised, reminded of why I loved it the first time. It begs to be seen over and over again. When the deer (?) drops the baby off, the camera movement following the deer and then back towards the wheelchair was beautiful. The snow, the face of the robot (?) and the glowing animal at the end are just tremendous. Everything screams originality here, the kind that comes from a deep creative force instead of a filmmaking sensibility.
The Running Man - by Yoshiaki Kawajiri
I miss this kind of animation. There is always a touch of madness. In this case, madness is everywhere. It is cathartic, like an excursion to all of potential rage possible within a being. Don’t miss this classic, a mix between sci-fi noir (Blade Runner-like) and Akira.
This American Life - Super (Simply incredible)
I have mentioned my love for NPR’s This American Life before. But a recent episode was just out of this world. Act 2 had one of the best stories I have ever heard. The theme for the episode is Super, you know, the guys that take care of the apartment buildings. I would suggest you stop reading and start listening. Don’t miss act two.
The show page - the direct link to the mp3 (this may stop working after a while).
Kali
I was half-interested in what was going on and the other half on how awfully sexy it all was.
Watch it (same director as Put your hands up for Detroit)
The Cat with Hands
According to David Lynch, even though you watched this before, you’re going to experience it for the very first time. Like a virgin, y’know.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Terminus
Incredible graphics for this short that works on many levels. Is it about emotional baggage? ghosts? people? bullies?
Watch low quality at Youtube or high quality quicktime (200mb!)
Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste
The Lord of the Rings director first feature back in 1987 is available online.
An alien prevention group called Alien Investigation and Defence Service’ - A.I.D.S(!)¸ wage war on aliens that have come to earth to supply an intergalactic fast food chain with a new dish - human flesh. They meet many challenges and many aliens (who can easily be distinguished by the blue oxford shirts they all wear) along their quest of stopping the invaders. It is very difficult to believe that Peter Jackson (as in Peter ”Lord of the Rings” Jackson) had anything to do with this movie. But¸ not only did he direct this home-grown funny¸ he played the main character - derek¸ who spends the majority of the movie losing pieces of his brain out of a wound in the back of his skull. This movie has a certain monty python meets my 2nd grade class clown kind of feel. Except without the class or the monty python part. And I mean that¸ as a compliment.
Watch it (1 hour & 31 mins)
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