Short Films
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Carrot vs Ninja: A Quick Tale of Violence
Short of the Day The title really tells you all you need to know about this one. Some short films are poignant snapshots of character, or meaningful…
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Her Friend Adam and Dependence vs Autonomy in Love
Short of the Day Written, directed, and starring Ben Petrie. In every relationship there is a tenuous balance between dependence and autonomy, or of being a part…
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X-Story Melds Animation, Adventure, and Video Game Aesthetics into a Powerful, Wordless Short
Short of the Day Stop what you’re doing, you have to see this. Have you ever wished Metroid was an award-winning animated short? Of course you have,…
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Get Swept Away on a Tide of Whimsy with The Lighthouse
Short of the Day A stop-motion tale for all ages. I’m not one to go in much for the “it’s like ___ meets ___” school of film…
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The Captain is a Hilarious and Harrowing Hangover
Short of the Day Nash Edgerton and Taika Waititi star in Edgerton’s most recent short film. Nash Edgerton does everything in film. I don’t mean everything like…
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The Magic Before Moonlight: Watch Barry Jenkins’ 2003 Student Film My Josephine
Short of the Day Shot by DP James Laxton. Barry Jenkins did not come out of nowhere. While it’s true that his feature Moonlight has catapulted him…
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State Zero is a Sci-Fi Spectacle from a Star Wars Concept Artist
Short of the Day Director Andrée Wallin has worked on The Force Awakens, Rogue One, and two upcoming films. Andrée Wallin is an artist who got his…
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Youth, Beauty, and Other Terrors make Cobalt a Must-See Film
Short of the Day For fans of Kubrick, Refn, Lynch, the Kardashians, and dirty pretty things. This little gem showed up in my inbox yesterday afternoon and…
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Whiplash and the Economy of Expansion
How writer-director Damien Chazelle expanded an award-winning short into an award-wining feature. Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash is one of the better stories about the struggle to…