MetaFilter posts tagged with film and shortfilm

David Lynch's "Rabbits"

Iridic — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:59:04 -0800

In a nameless city deluged by a continuous rain, three rabbits live with a fearful mystery... [Rabbits - David Lynch, 2002.]

Animation by Daniel Greaves

Paragon — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:30:27 -0800

2D characters in a 3D world: Flatworld (part 1, part 2, part 3). One of the many funny, clever, and innovative animations by Daniel Greaves of Tandem Films. Other short films by Greaves: Manipulation (1991) Rockin' & Rollin' (2001) Beginning, Middle, and End (2004)

Gestalt: Director's Cut

BlackLeotardFront — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:41:35 -0800

The sublime fractal-based short film Gestalt (previously) has been re-rendered in high definition. Go forth and iterate.

Also, don't miss Fleischfilm's newer, and similarly unnerving Energie! - also in HD. In case you lose patience, it really starts to blow up around the minute mark. I'd also like to take this opportunity to request that the community to post any interesting fractal (or mathematical whatnot) based films that have come up lately. I know you would have anyway, but we may as well make the party official.

Replay

juv3nal — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:01:00 -0800

Replay is a kind of stunt showcase short film from 2007. Features a dude chasing another dude. It was nominated for a bunch of awards and even won a few. weird trivia/spoiler bit

Landscapes of the Dream

WPW — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:13:33 -0800

Industrial Span, Dead Cars, Burnout, Roadside Memorials. Short films by Ashley Perry.

It does what it says on the tin

lizbunny — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:40:40 -0800

5 second films, original independent films exactly 5 seconds long [via Ovablastic]

festival-quality short films collection

taz — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:46:17 -0800

The Oscar-nominated "Mysterious Explorations of Jasper Morello" is an "adventurous tale of a navigator’s journey to save his ailing wife set in a beautiful world of Victorian science-fiction" and one the many fine film shorts and videos available to watch at shortof theweek.com - a site dedicated to "finding those few [video] gems amongst the enormous heap of garbage they're buried in..." You can browse the archives by genre, topic and style. Some of these you will have seen before, while some, I hope, will be new to you. A few personal favorites of both sorts: Solar, City Paradise, Comedy, Balance, Muto, Rabbit, The Pearce sisters.

Signs.

Memo — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:59:05 -0800

SIGNS A very cute "simple short film about communication". (SLYT)

"Shh! ...Did you hear that?"

Del Far — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:30:25 -0800

"Did you hear a stalk of celery being cut? If you did, you understand the magic of the Foley Artist." A short film that is just too long about silent films from the previously mentioned podcast You Look Nice Today

Mark 13 - "no flesh shall be spared"

Artw — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:52:40 -0800

The Sea of Perdition - Children of the Kingdom - Black Tulips - Three short films by South African-born film director Richard Stanley. Stanley's career took off with Hardware (an unacknowledged adaptation the 2000ad story Shok!) and the apocalyptic African western/Horror movie Dust Devil, then hit the rocks with the doomed 1996 version of the Island of Doctor Moreau, from which he was fired and replaced by John Frankenheimer. Stanley hasn't directed a feature film since... though he now has two films in preproduction, Vacation and Bones of the Earth. The original script for Moreau can be read on his unofficial site, as well as the script for a sequel to Hardware. Richard Stanley's MySpace Blog is also very strange.

It was Christmas Day and Danny the Car Wiper hit the street junksick

fearfulsymmetry — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:07:26 -0800

'Junky's Christmas' by William S Burroughs (Part 1, Part 2) More Christmas themed short films courtesy of Cyber Cinema ('the best short films on the web') at The Guardian

Short films made with images from the Hulton Archive

Kattullus — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:44:53 -0800

Photograph of Jesus is a short film by Laurie Hill illustrating the strange requests photography archivists at the vast Hulton Archive sometimes get, such as for photographs of Jesus, the Yeti, Jack the Ripper, Neil Armstrong with 11 other people on the moon and the like. This film won Getty Images' Short and Sweet Film Challenge. The three other shortlisted films were Big Red Button's gambling tale Perrington Stud, Jasmin Jodry's science fiction fantasy Star Games and Ian Mackinnon's sports story Long Jump.

Now we will see what a perfect post looks like. And what it can do.

StopMakingSense — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:46:05 -0800

Here is the post. Here is the post. Here is the perfect post.
How does such a number function? What kind of thing is it?
We will look into that. We will investigate that.

help?

not_on_display — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:52:17 -0800

Jim Henson's 1965 short film, Time Piece [via Channel 53, Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooogle]

Ich bin im Tod erblüht

Iridic — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:18:24 -0800

What happens in the shadow, in the grey regions, also interests us – all that is elusive and fugitive, all that can be said in those beautiful half tones, or in whispers, in deep shade.

Here are some short films by Stephen and Timothy, the Brothers Quay. The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer, 1984. Street of Crocodiles (and part 2), 1986. Dramolet (Stille Nacht 1), 1988. Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies, 1988. De Artificiali Perspectiva, or Anamorphosis, 1991. Stille Nacht II: Are We Still Married?, a 1991 music video for His Name Is Alive. Stille Nacht III: Tales From Vienna Woods, 1992. Stille Nacht IV: Can't Go Wrong Without You, 1993. Another His Name Is Alive collaboration. Helpful explications for the films can be found here.

Directors Behaving Badly

hadjiboy — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:40:37 -0800

The Cheating of Salim Baba [video | projector]

Short dutch films

whir — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:31:10 -0800

The short films of Floris Kaayk and Sil van der Woerd blend live-action footage and computer animation. Metalosis Maligna. Swim. Duet. Order Electrum. All links coralized, as the sites seemed pretty slow to begin with. Direct links: microbia (cached), Sil van der Woerd (cached). via, via.

I'm 71. I've got a right to be loud, lady. I'm gonna die soon.

miss lynnster — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:29:34 -0800

In 1964, Mel Brooks won both the Oscar & BAFTA Best Short Film awards for The Critic. His first film, it revolves around an old man heckling abstract animation that he doesn't understand. Youtube (lower quality) | brettratner.com (higher quality)

Well, our flight was just fine up until that guy started his lame singing. That's not JAZZ!

miss lynnster — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:12:20 -0800

Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls (1936), with cameos by Bela Lugosi, John Wayne & Terrence Stamp. This is a Hammer Film.

short films goodness

funambulist — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:01:27 -0800

Never ever borrow a friend's mobile, trust hitch hikers or strangers in furry costumes, never get distracted, worry about the first time or about your young son not being manly enough, and most of all never, ever forget stuff. Also, remember to always be nice to your enemies, your granny and policemen, but don't be too nice to your neighbours, and don't forget to get the car washed. Lots more brilliant short films viewable online from UK's Channel 4 Film (Real/WM streams).

Copy Shop: short film with unorthodox photocopy technique

planetkyoto — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:36:38 -0800

Copy Shop is a 12-minute dialogue-free film by director Virgil Widrich about a guy inadvertently duplicating himself over and over (320 x 240 streaming Real format download link). The most interesting aspect of the short, however, is that it was made frame-by-frame of photocopies, manipulated for jarring visual effects and then shot with a camera to put together the final cut. (Mentioned previously by film aficionado pxe2000.) Also see Widrich's photocopied short Fast Film with even more calamitous, unraveling effects. Get this guy toner refills for his birthday.

The Unhappy Medium

box — Sun, 06 Feb 2005 17:20:47 -0800

The Unhappy Medium. If you like modern silent films like Doc Hammer's Rub, linked here previously, you may also enjoy the work of Chelsea Spear. Her Alphabet is a short about math, music and a precocious child, while The Unhappy Medium, set in the 1920's, is about spiritualism, fraud, adults and children. And some good news for the would-be filmmaker: Kodak still makes Super-8 film, and there are plenty of cameras both old and new available.

apollonia6 — Sun, 24 Mar 2002 12:40:16 -0800

Rustboy , a short film about a Pinocchio/Frankenstein-esque robot child almost a year in the making thus far, has up until recently been illustrator Brian Taylor's personal side project. He's been keeping a diary of the process on his site and posting movie clips, storyboard sketches, and descriptions of how he achieves various effects the whole time. Followers of the site recently got the good news that Taylor has received funding to work on Rustboy full-time beginning in April. I've bookmarked it so I can check in every so often and say, "MAN, I wish I could do that!"

jonmc — Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:37:29 -0800

Everyone's favorite foul-mouthed, philosophical shopclerks are back. For those of you who missed it's premiere on the Tonight Show a coupla days ago, the inimitable Kevin Smith has new short up on his site(Quicktime and RealMedia). Dante and Randal are back talking all about mad German Scientists, The Jetsons and the decline of American ingenuity. Terrific, as always, Kev.

KevinSkomsvold — Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:45:59 -0800

There are some new cops out on the street. Yes. Its Eric Stoltz starring in "Jesus & Hutch". Just in time for Christmas. *Warning* This is a movie so if you are on a dialup like I am, sorry.