If you watch one short film today about sushi chefs battling giant sea monsters make it this one by Dan Blank. Yes, it’s a special effects driven short, but there’s such a whimsical charm that recalls the absurdity of Stephen Chow’s Shaolin Soccer or Kung Fu Hustle. In a word, Blank’s movie is fun. Goofy, [...]
The latest Toy Story short, Partysaurus Rex, premiered recently in front of the 3D re-release of Finding Nemo and is now available for your enjoyment courtesy of Disney. [via slashfilm]
What are the simple pleasures in your life that often go unnoticed or are forgotten about because they are small pleasures? The smell of freshly cut grass, the moment you slip off your shoes after a long day at work, trying to lick a melted ice cream cone. Those are the moments Luxembourg, Italy-based filmmaker Vitùc tried to [...]
Watch as a robot father tries to coerce his robot toddler down a slide because robot parents having parenting problems too! Yes, as The Daily What says, “it’s the most charming animated short you’ll see all week.”
In this touching and poignant French short film, Le Miroir (The Mirror), directed by Ramon and Pedro, otherwise known as Antoine Tinguely and Laurent Fauchère, a boy lives out his entire life in front of a bathroom mirror, with each new shot telling a new piece of his life story. It felt reminiscent of watching [...]
There’s no way to watch this video of a gritty, live-action video game short without ruining the surprise. Technically, the people who made the video kind of ruined the “twist” by titling it: “PAC-MAN live action reboot”. That’s a shame, because for the first couple of minutes, the video is un-nervering.You don’t really know what’s [...]
Marvel’s latest short film, or “one shot” in the parlance of comics, will star Lizzy Caplan and Jesse Bradford as a down-on-their-luck couple who find one of the discarded alien guns from The Avengers finale. Bad decisions and repercussions transpire. Two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents (Maximiliano Hernández, returning from Thor and The Avengers, and Titus Welliver (Lost, [...]
“Ruin” is short by Wes Ball from OddBall Animation is a chase sequence set in a post-apocalyptic world all done in CGI. Ball has been working in Hollywood for eight years and describes this as his “passion project”. Ball has been working on “Ruin” off and on for the last two years. The sound FXs [...]
Benjamin Howdeshell’s ten minute zombie short, Project: S.E.R.A., makes ‘The Walking Dead’ look like a sitcom. Official synopsis: “A young woman wakes up in an abandoned warehouse as armed soldiers torture her father with an experimental biological weapon.” [via theaggregate]
Swing of Change is a graduation short film directed by: Harmony Bouchard, Andy Le Cocq, Joakim Riedinger, and Raphael Cenzi. It’s New York in the 1930s and a racist barber changes his tune after the appearance of a magical trumpet. [via curiousbrain]
