MetaFilter posts tagged with short

Dog Years. A short film.

Ufez Jones — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:37:05 -0800

Dog Years. A brief, but touching short. Official site here.

"...the geek factor is high, there's no doubt..."

loquacious — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:28:10 -0800

Poor people drive our economy, okay? Poor people ... with checks.

grabbingsand — Thu, 22 May 2008 04:43:40 -0800

"America's most valuable resource is poor people." The award-winning Internets Celebrities (Dallas Penn, Rafi Kam and director Casimir Nozkowski) take on check cashing joints with a short documentary called Checkmate. Don't know the IC? Educate yourself with Bodega, Cereal Is Dope and the incredibly informative Urine Nation. (via Hip-Hop is Read)

Little Minx' Exquisite Corpse

carsonb — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:49:28 -0800

the eyes of every man riveted upon her
she turns back and faces forward, at peace
she walked calmly disappearing into the darkness
without missing a beat, she asks, "Waffles for breakfast?"
she stares longingly at what she has lost
five short films from little minx.

Possessed, A Short Documentary About Hoarders

jack_mo — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:22:22 -0800

POSSESSED is a short documentary film that 'enters the complicated worlds of four hoarders; people whose lives are dominated by their relationship to possessions'.

Shake, mate.

weapons-grade pandemonium — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:11:44 -0800

Bulgarian chess grandmaster Ivan Cheparinov twice refuses to shake hands with English grandmaster Nigel Short before a match. This is forbidden under tournament rules, so Short protests, and here's how it plays out.

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)

Story time

dersins — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:44:13 -0800

You should read these three stories by Amy Hempel. (Oh, and maybe listen to her read, here.) While you're at it, read some of these idiosyncratic but beautifully-written stories by grammarian Gary Lutz.

Along came a spider ...

bwg — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:44:01 -0800

"... straight out of Down-Under, explosive stuntman-editor-producer-writer-actor-director Nash Edgerton delivers his latest effort, "Spider", a 9-minute action-thriller that gives an all-new meaning to old Peugeots, stunning blondes and love-jokes."