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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Contemporary Short Films’
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[...]
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 [...]
August 1st, 2009 - 8:25 am § in Contemporary Short Films
Contemporary Short Films: Manon On the Asphalt by Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont
Download on Itunes This short film successfully bridges the gap between literary narration and film. It begins with Madeleine Peyroux‘s lilting cover of Bob Dylan’s “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go.” The song, coupled with an elegant title sequence that evokes[...]
July 21st, 2009 - 6:53 am § in Contemporary Short Films, UCLA Film School
Contemporary Short Films: The Replacement Child by Justin Lerner
Watch The Replacement Child on Vimeo “It is not the storyteller’s job to provide answers, but in fact the harder job is to correctly state the question.” -Anton Chekhov The Replacement Child was writer-director Justin Lerner‘s graduate directing thesis at UCLA’s School [...]