I am afraid to watch it without some form of description.
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Sep 24 2009 09:46 pm
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The Tadpole Who Wanted to Become a Pig by Eating a Pearl is a 2-min. animated short film by Jun Seo Hahm. The film is part of the 2009 Twenty120 collection of officially selected short films, each of which centers on the common theme of In the Age of Opulence. The characters in Hahm’s film have a strong 3D aesthetic, but the film is actually hand-drawn digital vectorized 2D animation. Jun Seo Hahm’s highly eccentric little film defies any kind of easy interpretation, although it seems to echo a twist on the old Biblical admonishment against “casting pearls before swine,” a warning that things should not be put in front of people who either can’t or don’t appreciate their value. The film provides a bittersweet visual statement about the frustrations of living in an age of over-indulgent opulence, which seems to be a perfect combination of the whimsical and cute, but also very sadly disturbing.
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Sep 28 2009 02:17 pm
Sorry, the video is currently not available =(
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Oct 28 2009 04:10 pm
Skhizein: The Very Sad Story of a Man Living 91-Centimeters from Himself
“Between” is a 4-minute short experimental film by the German filmmaker Tim Bollinger. The film has been described as a dark, surreal piece that travels through grounds and walls and into moments stuck in time. As Bollinger describes it, “It’s a journey through worlds of the subconscious, allowing us to catch sinister glimpses of the human psyche’s ambivalence.” Its complex combinations and the resulting visions evoke a stroll in between different senses, caught up in an endless loop within our inner life, where the exit is the only entrance.
I posted this in its own thread many many moons ago, but its so damn good it deserves a repost here for those who missed it. My favorite short film of all time:
Loved it so much I even made this motivational poster based on its ending (which I didn't post in the demotivator thread, since it's neither funny or demotivating.) WARNING not to look at it til you've seen the movie though, or it might give away how it ends--believe me, its worth the seven minutes.
He Dies At The End is an award-winning, excruciatingly suspenseful 4-minute minimalist horror film by the Irish filmmaker Damien McCarthy. Sitting all alone in his office, a man takes an online quiz which promises to tell him how he will die. Will he suffer a terrible death tied up, cut up, at the hands of evil hosts, demons, monsters or the devil? And sitting there in his darkened office, is he really alone?
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Dec 24 2009 04:21 pm
Wow, I really enjoyed Balance. Good message.
How did you find that Hawk?
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Dec 24 2009 05:12 pm
pineapple wrote:
Wow, I really enjoyed Balance. Good message.
How did you find that Hawk?
I know, isn't it awesome? I also love the fact that, while its message is clear, its also quite subtle, so there's plenty of room to take from it what you like.
To answer your question, one of my 9th grade humanities teachers showed it to the class. I've loved it ever since, and take every possible opportunity to foist it on others.
“Zombeer” is a dark and shocking horror short film by the Dutch director Rob van der Velden, whose previous short horror film won a Dutch Quentin Tarantino Competition. A drunken brew master has embarrassed the town brewery for the last time and has been exiled to the lonely late-night shift. But he hasn’t let this setback interrupt his drinking, and he ends up falling head-first into a boiling vat of churning hops. Now we all know that this would turn any drunk into a raging zombie, right? And that the now-tainted beer will turn everyone else who drinks this hops-with-a-bite into bloodthirsty zombies also, right? So now we have an entire town of drunken, bloody-minded zombies. That’s the plot. Done.
This piece includes a number of appalling, ghastly color photographs, as well as the dreadfully savage short film, “Zombeer.”
Procrastination is a humorous animated short film by Johnny Kelly, described as an investigative and exploratory hands-on, gloves-off study into the practice of putting things off. The film presents colorful illustrations of various forms of the time-old theory of “why do something today that you can put off until tomorrow?”
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Feb 28 2010 09:55 pm
Stereoscope: The Irrationality of Evil
Stereoscope (1999) is an award-winning animated short film by the Australian artist William Kentridge, with music by South African composer Philip Miller. The film is about the position of the privileged white artist in the midst of a political system that he rejects, but of which he’s s also part. It’s about both the white bureaucrat who’s greedy and rich, and the creative artist as stand-ins for aspects of Kentridge himself. Apartheid, a system of detestable oppression, formed him, supported him, and made him a famous artist. He refers to it as a rock that he carries within himself.
We can always use a little more escapism in our day; not too much, just a short journey to the outer reaches of the human consciousness and imagination. More often than not, this trip is enabled by incredible and transporting short films. Not incidentally, then, you’ll notice that most of these 10 Surreal Animated Short Films we’ve assembled are about some kind of travel. Won’t you come along with us?
Holy $%*&@!!! Supinfocom, the famous French animation school, has given us some ridiculously fun and outrageous student short films, but Hambuster may just take the prize as the most gleefully bugnuts of them all!
Hambuster is a wickedly funny six-minute 3D stereoscopic short film, co-directed by five students from Supinfocom Arles. Now, anyone who spends time eating their way around restaurant-obsessed America knows that when it comes to food, we are now living in a brave new burger world. America is awash in hamburger options, from business-lunch burgers, to chic nightclub sliders, to great hamburger creations to eat while you sit on a bench in the park, or even better, delicious burgers delivered piping-hot right to your seat while you watch a ballgame.
Maybe today you just might like having yourself a good juicy hamburger for lunch, while sitting in a peacefuly quiet place in the neighborhood park. But what if your lunch doesn’t like that idea at all, goes absolutely crazy-mad and decides to attack you? Out in the street everyone can hear your loud and bloody screams, but honestly who cares?
