Richard Kendall and friends took 30-second long sequential exposures and used different lighting techniques to come up with this short film.
Argentinian director Juan Pablo Zaramella's short film “Luminaris” is kinda perfect.
Movie Buzz A short film about a teenage nerd and the muse scientists in his head, helping him seduce his crush. Well, not so much seduce, as awkward himself to her.
Jake Gyllenhaal features as a hipster-hating serial killer in the newest video from The Shoes. Warning, there's some graphic imagery.
Culture Buzz Created by Heavy Rain developer Qantic Dream, this moving film is motion captured and rendered in real time. Read more about what went into it here.
This sobering piece about atrocities in Uganda hopes to make Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army and the man responsible for extreme atrocities in his home country, the most famous man in America.
Filmed in the Salmon River Rainforest in Oregon and featuring music by Radiohead, this short film is all kinds of lovely.
This is all kinda of lovely. While walking down the street one night, my girlfriend and I accidentally walked into this man's home thinking it was an antique shop. After getting to talk with him for a while, it became clear that this wasn't the first time this has happened to him.
I mean, they're a vital part of the ecosystem and this animation is gorgeous, but still.
Movie Buzz Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, âMorris Lessmoreâ is a story of people who devote their lives to books and books who return the favor. It’s also one of five animated short films nominated for this year’s Academy Awards ®.
Jim Henson made this short film for a Bell System’s seminar about data communications, a then unheard of topic.
Culture Buzz Do not watch “The Master Cleanse” while you're eating lunch. The short film's tag line, “Shit's about to get real,” pretty much says it all. This brand-new short film by Todd Strauss-Schulson, director of “A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas,” is funny and, well, pretty much horrifying. (via splitsider.com)
In the spirit of all your favorite Christmas action movies, meet GunDog: part dog, part gun, all cop.
A wonderful collection of one second video clips from the first round of the Beauty of a Second short film competition.
This short animated film by Philippe Desfretier features a little boy with a very big imagination.
ScarJo stars in a short film for Dolce & Gabbana’s The One fragrance. And by “short film”, we mean “longish commercial.” Pretty though.
This is seriously one of the best short films I've ever seen. Beautiful, gory, and surprisingly emotional. Just watch it. (via geektyrant.com)
This guy definitely was ready for a fight. The producers of Biting Elbows create a live-action film of a man's daring escape through an office building. (via geektyrant.com)
‘The Porcelain Unicorn’ was the grand prize winner of the Philips Parallel Lines ‘Tell It Your Way’ competition. Entries had only two requirements: they must contain exactly 6 lines of dialogue, and they could be no longer than 3 minutes. Click here to see the other entries. (via)
Brilliant and beautiful stop motion. These 12 minutes will not go to waste, I promise. (via Official Hype)
A man in black hunts his carrot munching prey. Then things turn weird.
Meltdown stars David Cross as a ham sandwich that tries to save his team of leftovers from being incased in ice! (via Have You Seen This?!)
A beautiful little film made by nine talented student animators. For those who love drama, admire good character animation, and respect story and suspense.
This trailer spoof from writer/director T.C.C. Taylor may not be a real movie, but I'd certainly pay to see it if it were.
Lazy Teenage Superheroes follows Ty as he tries to get his new “super” friends, Mitch, Cal, and Rick, to put down the video games, get off the couch, and use their powers to help save the world, instead of themselves.
This short film by Jamie Stuart references Dziga Vertov's 1929 silent film Man With a Movie Camera. Taken from photos of the blizzard this week, it's a perfect homage to the 1929 classic (which you can see below). (Via Suntimes.)
A stunningly beautiful short animation about a day in the life of a paper gentleman. All the animation and modeling was done by hand.