Bill Nighy’s British mannerism has recently been quite charming in the Boat That Rocked. When combined with Neil Gaiman’s skill and quirkiness, it’s just hard to resist.
Category Archives: short movies
Teat Beat of Sex
20-Dec-09
Signe Baumane, a Latvian animator living in New York, released a while ago this fantastic series of shorts giving her point of view on sex. Often funny, always witty and surprisingly very sexual at the same time. You can purchase the whole series on DVD on this website.
The Archive (Short Movie)
30-Jan-09
It’s a truly tragic story. It’s hard to imagine seeing your life’s work going unregarded in such a way, especially when it’s such a wonderful achievement.
Hotel Chevalier by Wes Anderson [Google Video]
Anderson just released out in the open a prequel to his upcoming the Darjeeling Limited. With the full feature being much anticipated, this short movie prequel is a sweet treat to munch on until the main course arrives. Anderson maintains in this short his trademark emotional blankness on the surface, which shields in a quite obvious way all that the characters suppress. Like his previous works, this one sports a wonderful soundtrack and superb camera work. Wonderful.
How-To Love: Bill Plympton
26-Jun-07How to Kiss [YouTube]
Sex and Violence [YouTube]
How to Make Love to a Woman [YouTube]
Sex is at times portrayed in a cheap manner, and at times as a series of precious moments between two people. Sex can turn into porn, and it can turn in romance. But what we tend to forget is that just like any other part of our life, it’s mostly, and beyond all, fuckin’ ridiculous. We often preach not to take life so seriously, to laugh on them, so why do we laugh about sex so rarely? Bill Plymton, on the other hand, takes this matter in a much more healthy perspective.
Links:
Bill Plympton @ Wikipedia
Official website
Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? by Miranda July [YouTube]
Hard and difficult questions are somewhat like caterpillars. First they exhibit themselves, and then they start worming their way down, making way and pushing all that they dug out into the open. Such questions, you can never know where they will lead you. They might lead you nowhere and will close all doors for you, and they might take you deep into places that you are not at all ready to go to. So, careful, dear, hard questions are a powerful tool that we all have against one another and for one another, even when we get no answers.
Links:
Miranda July @ IMDB
Miranda July @ Wikipedia
Image from Wikipedia.
Roman Polanski – Dwaj ludzie z szafa (Two Men and a Wardrobe) (1958) [131MB AVI]
When A and B come out of the sea, carrying their life and friendship in the form of a wardrobe, the world can not help but stare with contempt and hate. After society tries to trip them on every step and the way, they tire and return to the sea. This is not a special world that Polanski created in this short film of his, this is our own, on all its cruelty and fear of the other, the alien. Fuckin’ aliens! Send them back to the where they came from – the sea!
From IMDB:
Two men come up from the beach carrying a large wardrobe between them. They come up into the town but not only find that accommodation is difficult to come by with their wooden travelling companion but also that both women and men shun or mistreat them.
Links:
IMDB entry
Image from BFI.
Personal Point of View: Project 155
08-May-07
1 story. 5 directors. 5 different visions. We wrote a script celebrating a creative independent view point and we gave it to five directors so each one would film it according to their vision. This is what Ariel Winograd, Rodrigo Garcia Saiz, Plàstico, Cayetana Vidal and Nicolàs Parodi did. Enjoy.
Via shortville. Image from SiouxWire.
Nicole McDonald – Una Favola [25MB MOV]
For all the girls out there who ever wanted a pony. For all the boys out there who ever wanted a girl. Oh, maybe it should go the other way around… For all the ponies out there who ever wanted a boy, for all the girls out there who… Ah, it’s not that it all sounds wrong, it all just sounds right. So, let’s try it this way: to all these who ever wanted something to pet. Yes, back again to our petting theme. But, no, it’s not the same. Amy Sol’s petting is that of cuteness and sweetness, and here the petting is erotic. But, naturally, it’s actually quite the same. To all of you, it goes like this: There was once a girl who received a pony, which she loved so much that it stained her forever.
Images from the limited edition storybook that goes with Una Favola:
Links:
Nicole McDonald
Via Shortsville.
Edited by Inbal Mishory.
Horny [YouTube]
Do You Want Me To Take My Shoes Off? [YouTube]
How To Break Up [YouTube]
Except of capturing a great deal of what it’s to be horny, and except the meaning of depression, and beside the the how-to-sit-in-a-bus thing, there is really not much here. Actually, in all of these there is not much as well, but, to be honest, this is the point, and it’s a damn good one. Oh, but there is something here, a bunch of wonderful short animated clips and a few comics. Check out the links for more wonderful stuff.
Links:
All Lev’s stuff
Official website
And more on YouTube
Via Popnutten.
