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I dig short films, but aside from the occasional showing at a film festival I don't really ever get a chance to watch 'em. I figure most of you are in a similar boat. Short films are a great way for inexperienced or amateur filmmakers to get their work out there. They allow people to experiment and push boundaries, or tell unique stories where it would be a disservice to bloat out the running time. They are great for animation, particularly beautiful 2D or traditionally animated films of the type you don't really see as much anymore. They are also a great format for documentaries. I know a lot of goons have made short films; please post them up. I thought I'd get the ball rolling in probably a boring way and post some shorts which would go on to be adapted by the directors into feature films. Its always interesting to see the core idea that existed. In many ways the shorter run time doesn't seem seem to be doing much of a disservice. First up is Glory at Sea by Benh Zeitlin, who would then go on to make Beasts of the Southern Wild. It lacks the performance by Quvenzhané Wallis, to its detriment, but keeps a lot of the magical realist charm of Beasts. quote:A group of mourners and a man spat from the depths of Hades build a boat from the debris of New Orleans to rescue their lost loved ones trapped beneath the sea. https://vimeo.com/10066407 Next is Monster by Jennifet Kent, which would become The Babadook. It lessens the focus on recovering from a traumatic event, and is more about the animosity of a mother towards her son. The Babadook is also the Movie of the Month. quote:A single mother battles her son's fear of a monster in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her. https://vimeo.com/39042148 Something that should probably be mentioned is try not to  . A lot of short film makers put their films up on the web to avoid them falling forgotten into the void, or for ad revenue or whatever. Post short films that have been uploaded legitimately. I think the ones I have posted here have been?I don't know how to embed Vimeo vids 
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I'm really digging what's been posted so far, including this one (particularly the middle section with the ratcheting intensity of the demonic, mechanical wall):Anonymous Robot posted:Here is a short from the fantastic Czech animator Jan Svankmejer, The Pit, the Pendulum, and Hope: but it's reminding me that I had a big book of Poe stories, and when I got to the "The Pit and the Pendulum" I somehow read it such that it flowed seamlessly into the next story (might even have been Fall of the House of Usher?) without me noticing, and how weird the story came across. Do you have any other Jan Svankmejer recommendations, particularly neat stop motion stuff (which I assume was their main thing)? E: Anybody see any of the Oscar nominated shorts? quote:Best Documentary Short: Ruptured Yakety Sax fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Jan 15, 2016 |
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Allyn posted:Georges Melies' A Trip to the Moon, which has such great storytelling vision. It's still unbelievably charming and genuinely funny: Yeah, I'm a big fan of this one. I mean, it's super iconic, but I've always loved, for something made in 1902, how anti-colonialit or -imperialist it is. These bumbling idiots make it to the moon and immediately start murdering moonmen (selenites?) who, whilst from a strange and unfamiliar culture, aren't acting even remotely threatening. They quite rightly get arrested, only to kill the moonmen ruler and a bunch more citizens and soldiers, kidnap some poor fool and force him to dance in chains through the streets of Paris. These so-called modern scientists and thinkers are depicted as wizards. I felt like the last shot, of the statue of a man standing over the corpse of the moon with a staff through its eye, was particularly pointed. If you watch this on Netflix, like I did, be careful. There is a colourised version up there that has this voice over naration that's just awful. I understand that having people provide voices wasn't that uncommon when films like this were first doing the rounds? But that netflix version was just uncomfortable. Allyn posted:And finally, this was inducted into the National Film Registry for last year, another from Porter, Dream of a Rarebit Fiend. An innovative take on how to cinematically embody the experience of being drunk (weak spoiler but in case you wanna go in blind, I guess). Made me laugh more than most recent comedies: I was somewhat familiar with the old comic strip versions of Dream of the Rarebit Fiend, which always had someone going through a surreal experiance before waking up and lamenting having eaten a Welsh rarebit before going to bed. A Welsh rarebit is a melted cheese on toast sort of affair. Looking up on Wikipedia to see which came first, the comic strip or film, I see the example on the comic wiki page is basically an earlier version on the short film: 
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Jan 24, 2016 06:30
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Kangra posted:If you strip out the mediocre framing story, The Prophet is an anthology of some of the best animated shorts of the last year. For those who missed it, different animation studios were each given a segment that covers a chapter from Gibran's book. Each one is self-contained and there are no constraints on the style. Tomm Moore's segment ("On Love") is particularly brilliant. They are all really good. Even the framing story isn't terrible, but you can skip through it and not be missing a single thing. Seems like it might be neat. I had to check, but I recognised Nina Paley's animation style in there too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tIdCsMufIY This reminds me that I keep seeing an animated shorts collection on Netflix called Genius Party. I'd avoided it because I'm from the half of goons that feel weird about anime, but criticker is suggesting I'd enjoy it. Worth a look? Speaking of animation, Gobelins is (I assume) some sort of French animation school. They put what look like final year projects up on YouTube, and some of them are pretty good. Some are quite sweet. Plus they're all really short, less than 5 minutes. Here are a couple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sReQrbJVc6c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj7zfiMr7UI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xp22IYL2uU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVw68FKLEzQ Also, thanks Anonymous Robot
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Jan 25, 2016 14:08
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Anonymous Robot posted:I haven't gotten around to watching it yet, and it's weird enough that if you hate anime you might either really hate it or perhaps like it- but you might consider Mind Game instead, also on Netflix. Actually I had already seen Mind Game, it's good. I was put off by the first fifteen minutes or so, which (very deliberately I think) has the main protagonist acting like a stereotypically sleazy anime character. But it blossoms into something I really dug. It struck me as sort of being the inverse of Synecdoche New York in a lot of ways.
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