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New ideas don’t come around very often, but John Wilson actually has something to say. His hilarious video tutorials quickly derail into personal life commentary funny enough for a stand-up stage. With only a couple of handmade short films under his belt, he’s established himself (along with his Future Machine collective) as a distinctive new [...]
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‘Success is striking a balance between art and commerce’. This is the line that starts Riley Blakeway’s debut film, Thom: A Portrait of Modern Youth, a fitting line considering the subject matter. Thom is a teenager from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, who works as a concreter and enjoys surfing and skateboarding. For Thom (and [...]
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The Rest is Science is my short follow up to Brave New Old. The orignal idea with Brave New Old was to employ a mechanical storytelling element to the work, almost like a toy theatre. In the follow up, I decided to try extending this literally by placing all the characters in a giant machine [...]
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It’s been two years since Erwin Olaf presented us with this clever and magnificent short. I still keep going there once in a while. It’s brilliant and wise.
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Check out this series of short films considering the notion of ‘home’. I particularly love Hill, about a guy who became the caretaker of a remaining part of the crumbling Packard car plant in Detroit. Also check out Prime, about a burger joint that has been in Manhattan since 1938 and has remained unchanged since the 60’s – a true time capsule.
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I discovered Jess Iglehart’s work about five years ago when I purchased one of his paintings. Since then, Iglehart’s expertise has expanded as he’s studying Experimental Animation at CalArts. His illustrations take influence from Egon Schiele, Edward Gorey and Japanese ghost stories. Raised on MTV animation in the 90’s, his recent animations contrast his illustration [...]
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Stanley Pickle is a charming and poignant short film directed by Vicky Mather. The film was shot frame-by-frame, utilizing a stop-motion animation technique called pixilation. Stanley Pickle first premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2010, and has since received 33 international awards. This film does a beautiful job of developing and resolving a narrative [...]
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As somebody who spent their teen years with their best friend dressing up as Ophelia and taking photos of each other pretending to drown, I was intrigued when I came across this video from photographer Paolo Roversi and designer Miharayasuhiro. Ophelia Has A Dream is a subtle piece that is visually striking and features a [...]
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I’m very proud to say that I’ve gotten to know and be friends with Emily Youcis over the past five years. She has gained recognition on G4 TV for her wild and far from apologetic Internet videos about the masochistic dog, Alfred. These videos, especially, the trilogy Alfred’s Playhouse 1-3, are an inventive and harsh look at reality. Her paintings are equally as twisted, as they are stylistically phenomenal. She has the edge that society has been avoiding and truly needs to stare at. Nietzsche spoke of the abyss that stares back. The abyss is Emily Youcis.
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Montreal film-maker and stop motion wizard Patrick Boivin has an impressive array of short films to his credit. Most recently, he added this charming spoof on Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon starring pint-sized kung-fu master (and his own son), Elvis Bulte Boivin. A behind-the-scenes featurette reveals how Boivin was able to pull off the ridiculously [...]
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Gus Péwés short film, This Vacuum is Too Loud [watch below], won the Hammer to Nail Short Film Contest in June 2012. Reviewer Michael Tully notes: ‘Made while a freshman undergraduate, Péwé’s film is a super-duper example of a class assignment made on a tiny budget that has something many professionally produced films at more widely heralded film schools are often missing: a truly distinct voice’. Péwé also has started making music videos. Here’s one for the singer Mac Demarco.
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Robbie is a short film by Australian director Neil Harvey about an aging robot drifting alone through space 6000 years in the future. The process involved downloading 10 hours of footage from NASA archives. Such a great work with a deep message that made me think about life. Don’t be afraid, push play!
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“In ancient Japan, men once made a pact with the sea to kill only what he eat. But the promise has since been broken.” Ah, so that’s why these indignant sea monsters are gatecrashing sushi bars like angry activists. Everyone’s been jumping up and down on the back of this epic 6-min teaser short for [...]
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This is the greatest short film of all time and it’s finally back at Disneyland after years of being gone. It’s Michael Jackson in a space movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by George Lucas. I mean, it doesn’t get more random than that. When you’re at the theme park in Anaheim, you [...]
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We loved Nathaniel Lindsay’s previous film and are pretty blown away from the look of his next one. ‘In the Summer of 1980 a successful yuppie faces an existential crisis when a nosferatic ghoul joins his social circle and undermines his social status.’ Best. Plot. Ever.
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