Con Una Bala En La Cabeza

Screenwriting gurus will tell you to avoid voiceover at all costs. Well I don’t think too many screenwriting gurus have made short films like Con Una Bala En La Cabeza. The title translates to “With A Bullet In The Head” according to Google. In the absence of any real ability to speak Spanish I am willing to buy that. This is the type of short film that makes... Read More

No Robots

No Robots has some pretty mature storytelling under the hood of its student film skin. Told in beautifully rendered line-drawn animation with painstakingly detailed backgrounds, this simple yet beautiful tale is set in a time of a backlash against robots. Directed by Yung-Han Chan and Kimberly Knoll, students at San José State University, the short film does a beautiful job of... Read More

Slim Pickings Fat Chances

Directed by David de Rooij and Jelle Brunt Slim Pickings Fat Chances tells the tale of the owner of the only saloon in a town off the beaten path. When competition turns up in the form of a bigger, more attractive watering hole with on-call entertainment of the pulchritudinous kind the one who came before tries everything in his power to discredit the new establishment. The animation... Read More

Ormie

Eight film festival awards, who knows how many guffaws and giggles along the way. This short film has got to have some of the best acting by a cartoon animal in a very long time and it is just so much fun to watch the inventive ways in which the animators have had Ormie the pig attempt to get at that jar of cookies. Major props to Rob Silvestri for helming this effort. Can’t... Read More

İkilem

The Möbius strip narrative is always fun, if for no other reason than to see if the filmmaker drops the ball somewhere along the line. Ikilem, another example of that style of narrative, is a beauty. Featuring just enough man-on-woman action to make it mildly Not Safe For Work (depending upon how stuffy your co-workers are really), this is a really cool short story. I went in... Read More

Webcam

We live in difficult times and the rules are constantly changing for what is and isn’t considered appropriate behaviour. One truth? Privacy is a thing of the past. With cellphones, laptops, desktop and tablet computers all carrying cameras of one form or the other, couple with closed-circuit video in stores and office buildings, as well as traffic cameras and whatnot, it... Read More

The Stampede – Biting Elbows

I had never heard of Biting Elbows before but it is clear that right from their name these guys are into attempting the impossible. Which is what watching this video feels like. Yes, small wearable cameras have become pretty inexpensive. Sure, video game culture has thoroughly seeped into mainstream entertainment. We understand what we’re watching, we’re even familiar... Read More