(YouTube Link)

The Day I Met Dave is a short film with a creepy surprise, and manages to make a minute and a quarter feel like just enough time to get under your skin. Man, I need to shave!

–via Geekosystem

A couple having an intimate dinner conversation don’t realize they are being monitored. A short film by Marko Slavnic. -via Everlasting Blort

(YouTube Link)

When the term Fan Film is used to describe what you’re about to watch, you normally don’t expect much from the film or the maker.  This film, entitled Portal: No Escape is unlike any fan film i’ve ever seen, because it’s downright quality-looks good, well written, stylish and entertaining throughout.  No Escape should definitely raise the bar for future fan films, and I would love to see this film, and quality fan films like it, turned into YouTube mini series one day. Why is it that this short film rocks and most big budget video game movies are terrible? I guess Hollywood needs to hire more fans to help make their films!

-via BoingBoing

In Over Time, a group of puppets find that their creator has passed away. This 2004 film by Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland, and Damien Ferrie doesn’t explicitly say it is about Jim Henson, but you recognize it anyway. When I first saw this a few years ago, I couldn’t help but tear up. -via the Presurfer

What would you do if you had five minutes to live? Probably things you wouldn’t do otherwise, as you’ll see in this short film Ien Che made for a Campus Movie Fest at Emory University. -via reddit

La Maison en Petits Cubes {wiki} is an award-winning Japanese film about an old man whose home grows taller as the water rises. -Thanks, Hanan!

Peruvian filmmaker Ricardo de Montreuil made the short film The Raven on a budget of only $5,000. It is based on a treatment for a potential film trilogy. I won’t give any details, just enjoy the effects! -via Geeks Are Sexy

Meet Meline is an animated short film about a young girl who discovers a strange creature while at play in her grandparents’ barn. Virginie Goyons and Sebastien Laban produced it independently over a two year period. Run time: 7 minutes.

via The Presurfer | Behind the Scenes Video | Official Website

“Lights Off” is a short film created by the World Wildlife Fund to promote Earth Hour — a time when people around the world turn off all of their electrical appliances for an hour. The film has separate light and dark modes, and will play either the light or dark version depending on whether your computer’s webcam detects illumination or darkness. There’s also a light switch that you can flip to view either version of the film, no matter how well your computer area is lighted.

Link via The Presurfer | Screenshot: The Presurfer

Descendants is an animated short film by Heiko van der Scherm about two flowers, and the curiosity and treachery between them. In a manner that reminds me of the rabbits of Watership Down, the flowers are anthropomorphized, but still motivated primarily by the plant life cycle.

Starring Whoopi Goldberg. Run time: 14 minutes, 32 seconds.

via Nerdcore

Hugh Newman has a gift that works on everyone but the one person he wants most to please. A award-winning short by writer/director/composer Kurt Kuenne. -Thanks, Holistic CPA!

Johnny Kelly, a London-based illustrator, made this video describing all the ways that we put off doing what needs to be done. It was his graduation project at the Royal College of Art in 2007.

via Nerdcore | Artist’s Website

The "mockumentary" short film Sign Language is unexpectedly heart-warming.

"My workplace is wonderful, and I want to share it." These
are the opening words of Ben – a man who holds a sign for a living, and
loves his job more than almost anything. But today is his last day. What happens next?

The film was made for a short film competition on workplaces. See it and the other competitors, and vote for your favorite. Link

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by longbird.

Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo.

Arev Manoukian of Spy Films delivers a knockout with this short, elegantly rendered in 1940s style black and white, and stunning visual effects.  Love at first sight never looked so good.  Be sure to also see the Making Of video.

This beautiful short film shows you how to make a perfect espresso.

It’s the first part of an ongoing series of videos from The Department of the 4th Dimension that documents the search for the ultimate tastemakers.

Link [Vimeo] – Chris Glass via SimpleBits

(Dailymotion link)

An award-winning French film about Gary, who doesn’t want to go through the door. Link -via Everlasting Blort

]]> http://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/24/get-out/feed/ 22 http://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/11/the-cabbie-2/ http://www.neatorama.com/2010/01/11/the-cabbie-2/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:52:00 +0000 Johnny Cat http://www.neatorama.com/?p=28735 Filmmaker Vincent Laforet was asked to interpret the still frame seen in the video grab below using consumer-level HD cameras, and produced a vibrant, magnetic short film.

I wanted to create a dynamic film that took the audience on a journey and showed off the many strengths of this new breed of HD DSLR cameras, such as the Canon 7D, which we shot this film with. The camera’s low light capabilities and light weight allow you to do things you’d never think to try with traditional cameras. This has been an amazing experience and it’s just the beginning.

I hope you enjoy this short – we had a blast making it!

The Story Beyond The Still: The Cabbie from Vincent Laforet on Vimeo.

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E.T.A. by JUNK from Henrik Bjerregaard Clausen on Vimeo.

JUNKworks has released another great short for Vimeo, set in the distant realms of space.  It premiered in 2008 at the Bingen, Germany Breakpoint demoparty, and presents a scene with a very bored spacefarer named Marvin.

Full screen, volume up.

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Meet Alma, as she makes a rather unnerving discovery.

(Vimeo Link)

Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

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YouTube Link

Goons is a Chicago-based street artist who, with the help of director Ace Norton, and sponsor Orbit, created this stop-motion one minute clip.  You can see that Goons has a theme to his work at his website.  (via Bifurcated Rivets)

That reminds me, I need to clean my house.  Music: “Keep it Clean” by Camera Obscura.

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(YouTube link)

The bubbles are doomed when people get hold of bubble wrap! An award-winning horror story by Arthur Metcalf. NSFW language. -via Everlasting Blort

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(YouTube Link)

Onwards is a simple and elegant short film about a runner. It was created by James Jarvis and Richard Kenworthy and sponsored by Nike.

Official Website (where there’s a full screen, high resolution version)

via The Presurfer

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(Video Link)

Il Gatto is a short film by Peter Atencio.  It’s about the love that a woman has for her kitty cat/sensei and her quest for vengence against the man who accidentally drove over it.  It seems modeled on Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse films.  Run time: 5 minutes.

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(Video Link)

Prey Alone is a 2005 short film by Stephen St. Leger and James Mather. It’s about a mysterious stranger who shoots and races his way out of a city, and the cop trying to stop him. Prey Alone is an amazing action film with great special effects. Run time: 15 minutes.

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Machu Picchu Post from Machu Picchu Post Team on Vimeo.

A gorgeous 3D film by Clement Crocq, Margaux Durand-Rival and Nicolas Novali for the “Supinfocom Arles” in 2008. It depicts the antics of a young Peruvian boy, his Llama and a Pilot who goes through a psychedelic experience filled with Peruvian iconography and mysticism. Also check out the making of the film on CGSociety as it details the fascinating steps into creating a 3D short film.

TGIF!

Machu Picchu Post Website – Link
The Making of the film on CGSociety – Link

]]> http://www.neatorama.com/2009/06/26/machu-picchu-post/feed/ 3 http://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/21/sorry-im-late/ http://www.neatorama.com/2009/05/21/sorry-im-late/#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 15:14:30 +0000 Miss Cellania http://www.neatorama.com/?p=24333 Have you ever had one of those days where everything goes wrong and you just can’t get where you’re trying to go? That’s the idea behind this collage-style animation by Thomas Markovsky. Link -via Everlasting Blort

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His other paintings are also quite stunning and I recommend checking them out.

Via Geekologie

Ever wonder what some of the big-name Hollywood directors’ pre-fame student and short films were like?

Long before Star Wars or even THX-1138 George Lucas was an ordinary USC film student. For his Senior thesis film he, along with 13 other film students, produced an 8-minute short film known as 1:42:08. The dialoge-free film follows racing driver Peter Brock as he takes a Lotus 23 through Willow Springs Raceway at full-throttle.

– via autoblog

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by whitespace.

Poking around Fangoria‘s site I stumbled upon something seemingly out of the ordinary – a short film review of an unknown film by an unknown filmmaker.

The short called "The Night Shift" is an adventure/comedy/horror/sci-fi film about a cemetery night watchman whose nightly job is to keep the cemetery’s residents from escaping. Citing Fangoria’s positive review I gave the 23 minute film a view and thought it was fantastic. It’s truly a unique and out of the ordinary concept that makes for a very entertaining film. I hope everyone can set aside 23 minutes and give this wonderful film a chance. You won’t regret it.

Meanwhile, I checked out the filmmaker’s website (www.fightingowlfilms.com) and learned they’re a Mobile, Alabama (where?) based low-budget filmmaking group aspiring to make a feature film. I wish them the best of luck and with a film like "The Night Shift" on their resume I look forward to their future endeavors.

I’ve posted Part 1 of the film as found on YouTube. Part 2 and 3 are also available as well.

– via fangoriaonline

From the Upcoming Queue, submitted by Gukbe2000.

See what happened when Nazi scientists discovered a way to let a subject travel through time.

You won’t guess the ending: Link [embedded Flash video clip, 11 min.]