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Weekly Theme for August 24: Shorts

Well hello there brothers and sisters. Brother Merc has decided this week to take a vacation from the highly prestigeous postion of Weekly Theme Moderator so I'm picking up his slack. So, in honor of Merc (who's a little different) I decided to do something a little different this week. Let's take a break from all those feature films that fill up our lives. This week, let's talk about short films.

There have been a few collections of shorts released as full lenth features in recent years. I'm thinking of Paris Je t'aime (collection of a bunch of 5 minute films shot revolving around Paris) and this year's Tokyo! (3 half hour long films set in Tokyo.)  I liked a few of the flicks in Paris Je t'aime, especially the Tom Tykwer one with Natalie Portman. Tokyo! had a great short by Korean director Bong Joon-ho (director of The Host)

The nice thing about shorts is that you can find a lot of them on youtube and post them here. So, that's what I'm gonna do.

Here's one of my recent favorites from the Wholphin collection. It's called The Pity Card.

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I'm not sure how I came across this little gem but I kinda love it. It's a true story too.

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This one is definately my favorite. Yet another from the Wholphin dvds.

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So, that's what I've got so far. Short films are great, they tend to lend the filmmakers a lot more freedom and you can end up with some great experimental stuff. Also, they don't take up nearly as much time so you can usually get away with watching them at work.

Check 'em out. Let me know if you like 'em and post some of your own.

Peace & Love,

Emery.

Re:Weekly Theme for August 24: Shorts

Re:Weekly Theme for August 24: Shorts

Just saw a pretty interesting short last night Les escargots (The Snails).  Funky French animation from the 60s.  It was on the DVD with Fantastic Planet which is some weird stuff!

I think maybe the most famous short film I know if is La jetée (The Pier) which is almost entirely a series of strange photographs (until the very end) with voice over narration.  It was the inspiration for the wondeful Twelve Monkeys.

There are some pretty hilarious shorts by Don Hertzfeldt.  Has anyone seen Rejected?  Scene after memorable, outrageous scene!

Has anyone seen An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge?  I've read the story and heard this is one of the best shorts around ever too.  It was sold to the Twilght Zone and aired as an episode once.