Hey! Wazzup! Make Up!
LOL. Just LOL.
StSanders shreds The Rolling Stones.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Ode to the Indie by Ellen & Brett
Thanks Mags!
Fredo Viola – Improvisation 2
Improvisation 2 from Fredo Viola.
Previously: Sad Song by Fredo Viola
Lo Guarracino
A story of love, honour and vengeance between earth and sea. A stop motion fantasy based on Lo Guarracino, a Neapolitan toungue twisting song of the 18th century.
A short film directed by Michelangelo Fornaro. Produced by Silvana Leonardi and Vincenzo Di Marino.
Watch Lo guarracino. (MPEG-4)
Me and Mom
A perfect little universe onto to itself.
The T-Mobile Dance
Jason asked if you could watch this without smiling, my answer is clearly no.
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.
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)
François Macré – Thriller
I have always wanted to do this for a Radiohead song. Vocalize all the elements including instrumentation.
John McCain vs Barack Obama dance-off
One of the best videos of this long political season.
La pasion de la decision: Episode 5
This video is the fifth in a series of spoofs of telenovelas, presented on the Voto Latino website. Rosario Dawson describes it as their answer to Sarah Silverman‘s The Great Schlep.
Starring and directed by Wilmer Valderrama, Rosario Dawson, Perez Hilton, Jane Fonda, Tony Plana, Mayte Garcia, Nick Zano, with a cameo by Vida Guerra, Malverde, Chana, Alysha del Valle and Upground.
Music produced by Marthin Chan. Lyrics by Rosario Dawson.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
via GreenCine and Wilshire & Washington
Spinning Rainbow
A music video about how annoying Macs can be sometimes. And man boobs. “You gotta check it out if you’re into being tricked by Internet videos.”
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Christian the Lion
A wonderful story coupled with the cheesiest music. It is hard not to get emotional.
JibJab – Time for Some Campaignin’
On what has become an electoral tradition, the JibJab crew sets their eyes on Obama & McCain (& Hilary).
Watch it (via Crooks & Liars)
3 Days in April
Another test video by Philip Bloom that walks and talks like an art film. This time, he is testing out the unreleased but recently announced Sony EX3.
Watch 3 Days in April – His official site.
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