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Anthony Melton’s short horror film, Don’t Move, manages to accomplish in 11 minutes what most films cannot do in 90. It creates a truly scary monster and situation that maintains a high level of tension. Oh, and it’s kinda gory.
The Last Bookshop is a short film that will appeal to book lovers…
The Last Bookshop imagines a future where physical books have died out.
One day, a small boy’s holographic entertainment fails, so he heads out to explore the streets of abandoned shops outside. Down a forgotten alley he discovers the last ever bookshop. And inside, an ancient shopkeeper has been waiting over 25 years for a customer…
Directed by Sam Taylor and Bjorn Aschim, Everything I Can See From Here is described simply as “A game of football turns deadly as an uninvited player joins in”…
This isn’t new, but I just came across this short film called Something Real. It’s a fan film based on Iain M. Banks Culture novels.
Enjoy!
In this bizarre but captivating animation by Patrick Smith, “masked men exploit an edible smaller species as a renegade scientist perfects a cloning process to satisfy demand, but the clones conceal a destructive secret.” This is Smith’s visualization of musician Karl von Kries’ seven minute audio score.
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Malaria is a short film that is equal parts comic strip, Origami, spaghetti fantasy western and performance art. It tells the story of Fabiano, a young Mercenary who is hired to kill Death. And it is awesome.
Moon Dust is a too-short film by Ezequiel Romero well worth the watch.
A pilot crash his landing pod from the Moon in the middle of a forest. He carries a secret with him that could cost him his life…
Paul and the Dragon is an affecting animated short created, directed and animated by Albert ‘t Hooft and Paco Vink from Anikey Studios.
Paul is feeling sick and needs to go to the hospital. After several tests he is diagnosed with cancer. ?He does not understand what is happening to him, and what the medications are doing. ?He feels scared and alone. His doctor explains to him that the cancer is like a dragon in ?his body that needs to be fought. As a true hero, young Paul fights the dragon, together ?with the medications and the love of his family, and wins.
This film supports the efforts of the American Childhood Cancer Organization, acco.org — tip ‘em at Vimeo!
A short-but-funny film involving a unicorn.
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Paperman, directed by John Kahrs, is a 2012 animated short from Walt Disney Animation Studios that has received a nomination for Best Animated Short Film at the 85th Academy Awards. It’s quite well-done, conveying lots of charm with no words.
Check it out after the break…
A little late for Christmas, but hey, we can’t all have time-traveling phone booths and get posts in on time.
In this cute animation by Alisa Stern, the Doctor puppet must save New York. Again.
Space history buffs will recall Laika, the Soviet space dog that became the first animal to orbit the Earth.
Here is the short film Laika, a re-imagining of that true story and what may have happened to Laika on her momentous journey.
Came across this recently and wanted to share – Archetype, a short film by Aaron Sims.
RL7 is an eight-foot tall combat robot that goes on the run after malfunctioning with vivid memories of once being human. As its creators and the military close in, RL7 battles its way to uncovering the shocking truth behind its mysterious visions and past.
Starring Robert Joy (Land of the Dead, CSI:NY) and David Anders (Heroes, 24).
This short film has some stunning visual FX.
Check it out after the jump.
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I had the opportunity to watch the short film All I Think Of Is You and it was good.
What is it about? The film, which takes place in a world where memories can be recorded and copied, begins with a women who is contacted by a stranger claiming to possess the memories of her husband, who recently died in a traffic accident.
All I Think Of Is You was funded through Kickstarter for $3k and shot in 3.25 days in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s the third film from writer/director Shad Clark, whose previous films, Anonymity and Side Effects May Include, played film festivals around the world. Anonymity was also featured on IFC and optioned for feature development.
I hope the same happens with All I Think Of Is You, I’d love to see a longer version that examines the implication of the technology even more.
After the jump: a two-minute preview…
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Things are not going well at the Sushi Hut…
Paul Di Filippo pointed us to this wonderfully done short film called Monster Roll. It’s a proof-of-concept project for a feature-length film about sushi chefs fighting sea monsters.
Yeah, I know. I was thinking this had to be the worst idea I had ever heard of…until I saw the following mock trailer. Now I’m thinking this could be a new generation’s Big Trouble in Little China.
According to the Vimeo page, the filmmakers are thinking of starting a Kickstarter project to finance the longer version. I like that idea. Watch this and tell me if you think so, too.
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True Skin. a short film that offers an interesting look at our increasingly digital future…
True Skin – A sci-fi short set in the not too distant future where augmentation is the way of life. For Kaye, still a natural, augmenting will help him keep pace in this now hyper-paced world. However, after acquiring an off-market prototype, Kaye quickly finds himself fighting not only for his own humanity, but something much larger.
Ian Hubert’s Tears of Steel was realized with crowd-funding by users of the open source 3D creation tool Blender. The goal was to improve and test a complete open and free pipeline for visual effects in film – and to make a compelling SciFi film in Amsterdam.
By the looks of this, they succeeded.
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Check out this short science fiction film called Plurality. It takes place in NYC in 2023, where the WTC1/Freedom Tower houses THE GRID, a city-wide system that tracks all of your movements to reduce crime. But is personal safety worth the price of privacy? That’s the theme in the smart short film film conceived by Ryan Condal (screenwriter for Paradise Lost, Hercules, & Cell 211) and directed by Dennis Liu.
Nicked from Mark Charan Newton comes this short film called Grounded…
One astronaut’s journey through space and life ends on a hostile exosolar planet. Grounded is a metaphorical account of the experience, inviting unique interpretation and reflection by the viewer. Themes of aging, inheritance, paternal approval, cyclic trajectories, and behaviors passed on through generations are explored against an ethereal backdrop.
Here’s a short film that’s more proof of concept than plot, but nonetheless fun…
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