Raw Data
Keep your eyes fixed on those eyes, it gets trippy. This video creates a new category for itself: animation improvisation.
Joel Compass “Back To Me”
A tale told only with cinemagraphs. Lovely black & white cinematography.
Grounded
Beautifully realized. Strong visuals. The ending doesn’t come as a surprise, the twist is a constant refrain of shorts. There is only so much that can be done in a short film format but I did wish the film could have continued for a longer period and delved into some of its ideas.
Diplo feat. Lazerdisk Party Sex – Set It Off
The apparent sell are the beautiful strippers but the feeling the effects generate hints at a larger more intriguing story.
Delta Rae – Bottom of the River
Great song and performed beautifully. Shot by Steve Milligan.
FILM 1
One of my favorite videos I’ve ever posted here. There is so much that can go wrong with this idea where the entire thing could come off pretentious. Maybe to some, it might very well be a little pretentious. To me, the filmmaker, Martin de Thurah, walked the line beautifully, it is a dream but unlike some films about dreams, there is a connection to a reality that we can easily comprehend.
Truth be told, I can spend a lot of time looking at Iva Gocheva. Her expressions shift and move so quickly and powerfully, my feelings can’t help from mirroring hers. Just lovely work overall. Excuse me as I watch it another time.
(via Robin Schmidt)
Between
Haunting imagery with a vague semblance of a storyline. Effective nevertheless.
RÖYKSOPP – SENIOR LIVING
The time shifts are lovely. I think cinema should officially replace the cigarette with the lollipop.
Alice & The White Hair
Surreal. A short shot like a music video, with a narrative that plays hide ‘n seek.
The Subway Time
Strange things happen in Subway Time, a fantastic animated short film by Dongzhen Li, student of the Beijing Film Academy. Some of you will also enjoy watching the the making of featurette.
Watch: Film – Making of (via Directors Notes)
Tame Impala – Solitude is Bliss
The end of the world as we know it isn’t in this music video directed by Megaforce.
Watch Solitude is Bliss.
Múm “Sing Along”
Marvelous, Keen Loony Bin
Wanting versus having. The mechanics of desire according to Lizzi Akana.
Poni Hoax – Antibodies
Just got a comment on this post from 2008 and thought it would be appropriate to give it some more airtime.
Watch Antibodies. (Warning: nudity)
The Ostrich
Yeah, you know, those strange animals who put their head into the ground. Let’s see things from their point of view…
A short film by Lucas Zanotto, with sound design by David Kamp.
Watch The Ostrich.