Undone
An elderly man fishing on a tempestuous sea is a metaphor for loss of memory and loss of self. As everything he tries to “catch” slips through his fingers, so too the world slips away and he becomes undone.
A short film by Hayley Morris, Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance 2009.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
(via Cartoon Brew)
Paris, Je T’aime – 14th Arrondissement
Missed Connections
I love the Missed Connections blog. This new video captures it quite beautifully. This new web series is very promising.
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…
via Inspirational
Welcome To Creepyville
(via Second Cinema)
Days Like This – Loneliness
Days Like This – Loneliness from Narfnarf.
Solitude
Far from the world, close to the heart.
A short film by Robin Risser.
Watch Solitude.
9
Action packed animated story about…well…to kill the mean monster. Good enough for me.
A Pickled Sunday
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
via Directors Notes
Ark
An unknown virus has destroyed almost the entire human population. Oblivious to the true nature of the disease, the only remaining survivors escape to the sea. In great ships, they set off in search of uninhabited land. So begins the exodus, led by one man…
Ark is a short movie directed by Grzegorz Jonkajtys who produced it with Marcin Kobylecki at Platige Image.
Watch it. (Flash Video Quicktime, HD)
Watch it. (MPEG-4, Hi res)
Pièces détachées
Paul (Antoine Coesens Lazaro), an obsessive casino player, finds himself with lots of debts and it is threatened with death by Benjamin Stern (Jean Claude Dauphin), his creditor. His friends now refuse to lend any money, he then decides to commit the unthinkable: sell one of its organs [...] But by committing this act against nature, Paul puts his finger in a grim spiral that takes him to the borders of madness and death.
The short movie has been written and directed by Sébastien Drouin and produced by himself and Pierre Buffin at BUF.
The film is in French language, with no subtitles!
She Who Measures
Are we truly free? Are our desires truly our own or merely imposed products of the society we live in?
“Film critics’ jury of the 32nd International animated film festival in Annecy (Nadezhda Marintchevska, Avedik Olohadjian and Doris Senn) has decided to give the prestigious FIPRESCI Award to Ona koja mjeri (in English: She Who Measures) by Veljko Popovic.”
The movie was developed at Lemonade 3D and produced by Kenges.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
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)
Tuesday
A beautiful short animation by Swedish director Åsa Arnehed. Here’s what Andrew Allen said on his place at Short of the Week, where I’ve found the film:
It moves at a crawling pace that, ironically, catches your attention among the mish mash of seizure-inducing videos online. Everyone fights for attention by making things bigger, brighter, and faster, and so no one stands out. It takes a well-timed film like this to bring things back into balance.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Phone Sex Grandma
I hope you don’t rely on telephone sex to get your rocks off because this short documentery would certainly kill that. A one-joke short but the one joke is pretty funny.
Watch it – via Cinematech
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