This was made into a feature in 2009. The piece is quite remarkable on all levels, especially when compared with the relatively primitive animation from that year. From UCLA’s 2005 Director’s Spotlight:[...]
Archive for the ‘Contemporary Short Films’ Category
July 26th, 2010 - 10:16 pm § in Contemporary Short Films, Film School
Great UCLA Shorts: Shane Acker’s 9
July 20th, 2010 - 8:33 pm § in Contemporary Short Films, Film School
The Swimming Lesson
The Swimming Lesson is the story of a young girl who takes extreme measure to get her overworked father to go swimming with her. The Swimming Lesson is the first film I made at UCLA. We were given four hours and one roll of 16mm film (about 10 minutes) to shoot a film.[...]
10 Problems With Student Scripts
After my first year at film school I have spent a lot of time with short screenplays. I’ve written around 20 or so at this point, and have dealt with almost all of these difficulties in my own writing. In the last few years I’ve seen a lot of short films, and these are the [...][...]
June 6th, 2010 - 5:07 pm § in Contemporary Short Films
Blue Tongue Films
Blue Tongue Films is a loose Australian film collective responsible for such films as Sundance World Jury Prize Winner “Animal Kingdom,” Oscar-Nominated Short Film “Miracle Fish,” and the feature “The Square.” This article chronicles their rise to fame in the last[...]
May 22nd, 2010 - 11:21 pm § in Contemporary Short Films
Peter and Ben
This wonderful little documentary short about man’s need for companionship won the 2008 edition of Aspen’s Shortfest, recently listed on Indiewire’s new Top 50 Festivals.[...]
The Short That Gets You An Agent
A Melbourne film school grad and former editor of Oz cinema mag Inside Film, Michod shot to prominence through a series of compelling short films. Many were made with frequent collaborators, such as Susser and Edgerton, with Michod also writing for and acting in their respective shorts. Michod’[...]
April 18th, 2010 - 4:28 pm § in Contemporary Short Films, Reviews
Hello, Thanks
Hello, Thanks is a wonderful little short film by Andy Blubaugh, which premiered at the 2006 Sundance film festival. Andy was recently written up in Indiewire’s recently revived Futures Column, which looks at up and coming independent filmmakers. Blubaugh is based in Portland Oregon. Hello Tha[...]
March 28th, 2010 - 9:14 pm § in Contemporary Short Films
Please Say Something
Saw this at the Berlin Film Festival last year. An excellent little short that picked up a hell of a lot of prizes. Amazing visuals, excellent narrative strategies and editing. A real pleasure. Synopsis: A troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant Future. Written, Directed &am[...]
January 24th, 2010 - 10:35 pm § in Contemporary Short Films, News
The Most Beautiful Man in the World
This is one of my favorite short films, which I thought I’d share. It’s breathtaking. Find it in high quality if possible. The Most Beautiful Man in the World “This week’s short film is short and on the surface slight to a point almost beyond belief. In that regard it is a film t[...]
August 22nd, 2009 - 7:25 am § in Contemporary Short Films
Contemporary Short Films: Our Time is Up by Rob Pearlstein
Watch on Youtube. The therapist in popular culture is hackneyed figure. Usually a small, stocky, jewish-looking man, his fate is to listen to the lucrative if dull problems of the rich, problems more easily solved with a bit of common sense. I know this is a comedy, and I watched it with my mom and [...]