GoShort is a great little short film festival based in the Netherlands. Perfectly suited for today’s focus on digital delivery and miniscule attention spans – films are 2-7.5 minutes. White Tape is a beautiful, compact animation that rewards you with a simple, potent message. A few others on the home page that are more than worth your time.
via the wonderful SOTW
Grain Edit reminded me of this commanding title sequence from the 1966 film. Saul Bass is such a badass they should change it to “bassass”(sorry)
Minimal imdb research reveals Lucille Bluth makes an appearance!
Gripping short by Aussie David Michôd, one of the most promising young filmmakers around the globe. Sadly, it’s a tough sell holding the youtube generation audience captive for 15 minutes. No problems here, though, as an unseen narrator manages to balance general existentialist brooding and dark hypersexual yearning with downtrodden musings on the helpless, seemingly inevitable and ultimately violent path of the film’s protagonist.
Michôd’s first feature Animal Kingdom appears even more compelling, and lucky for us it arrives Stateside in August. If you’re in need for some more great Down Under content in the meantime, check out the Blue-Tongue Film collective that Michôd calls home, perhaps pound-for-pound the greatest assembly of emerging filmic talent in the world at the moment.
Crossbow via SOTW
Holy shit this looks fun. And great. It’s like if you’re eating lunch somewhere and get to thinking, “you know, I am really satisfied with this lunch, it looks good. I’m proud of myself for making this lunch, even though it took a long time and was exhausting to make and didn’t exactly turn out how I expected.” Then somebody else sits down with, like, the best goddamn looking lunch ever, all compartmentalized on the lunch tray so it’s divided up and pristine. Which, in turn, makes you think, “god, that guy’s lunch looks so much better than my lunch.”
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I started daydreaming while watching this. I mean that in the very best way possible
from Short of the Week
If you start watching this you won’t stop. Love to still see a trade being passed down.
So many killer short films rolling out right now! (and more to come) Ignore that this came out a year ago, I just saw it today. Spooky, great production design, quick story, weird Russian subtitles–this baby’s got it all!
You may have seen it elsewhere already today, but it’s just too tres adorable.
Such a shitstorm of awesomeness. From first-rate independent director Ramin Bahrani (of Goodbye Solo fame) comes this masterful short that turns a potential American Beauty one-note joke into a touching, humorous and compelling journey to the core of man’s struggle with its own existence vis a vis dawning self-actualization.
It certainly doesn’t hurt that the irrepressible Werner Herzog provides narration as Sigur Ros’ Kjartan Sveinsson offers an appropriately swelling score. Always calm, often haunting, truly a great work. I wonder if they had a plastic bag wrangler during the shoot…
Directed a short film over the weekend. Lots to do, but here’s a taste…