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Dumping links to some of my favorite shorts, feel free to add yours.
> Winner of the Acadamy Award for Best Animated Short Film and Short Film Palme d'Or in 1987, this is a charming animated masterpiece about a man who devotes his life to planting trees.
> Directed by Frederick Back and edited by Norbert Pickering, this is the full English language version translated by Jean Roberts and narrated by Christopher Plummer (the orginal version is in French language narrated by Philippe Noiret).
> Jean Giono, the author of the short story upon which the movie is based, wrote the story after American editors in 1953 asked him to write a few pages about an unforgettable character. They intended him to write about a real unforgettable character, but he created the fictional Elezeard Bouffier. When the editors objected that no Bouffier had died in Banon, he donated the story to all humanity. It was soon after published by Vogue in 1954. Many people have assumed that Bouffier is a real person.
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No.9699
Light Is Calling (35mm, 8 min, 2004)
A meditation on random collisions.
A deteriorated print from "The Bells" (1926) was optically printed and edited to Michael Gordon's composition.
Film by Bill Morrison
Music by Michael Gordon
The link will not embed: https://vimeo.com/10171103
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No.9700
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>>2603
>Richard Williams
I can't believe his wonderful 1971 adaptation of A Christmas Carol has STILL not received even a DVD release.
I have embedded Tale of Tales (1979).
>A reflection of Russian history and memory. Norstein creates a visual emotional response to a changing Russia, followed in the eyes of the Little Grey Wolf spying on various people's lives, and giving an insight on Russian culture in the 20th Century.
Anyways
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No.9701
>>9700
Sorry ignore the random anyways at the end.
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No.10181
Desire Management is a film by Noam Toran comprising five sequences in which objects are used as vehicles for dissident behaviour. In the film, the domestic space is defined as the last private frontier, a place where bespoke appliances provide unorthodox experiences for alienated people: An airline hostess with a unique relationship to turbulence, the owner of a mysterious box which men ritually visit to look inside, an elderly man who enjoys being vacuumed, a couple who engage in baseball driven fantasies, a man who is forced by his partner to cry into a strange device.
>Couldn't make sense of the URL of the video you tried to embed.
Fooking hell...
https://vimeo.com/9785498
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No.10415
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Atami Blues (1962)
21 min.
This short is one of a handful directed by Donald Richie, the American-born scholar of Japanese films. You may recognize his name from his books or his Kurosawa commentary tracks. Here you can see one of his original works which was scored by Toru Takamitsu
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No.10821
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Takashi Ito - Spacy (1981)
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No.10836
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No.10890
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I searched this board for Lawrence Jordan and didn't get any results. So here are a couple animated shorts from him.
>Best known for his singular cutout animation style, the films of avant-garde great Lawrence Jordan channel the unconscious to construct surrealist dream-like distortions of imaginary rituals. Found graphics of animals, objects and characters come alive against backdrops of drawings and engravings by masters like Gustav Doré. Collaborator with Stan Brakhage, assistant and friend of Joseph Cornell, and co-founder of Canyon Cinema, Jordan has championed the use of film as a vehicle for personal expression from coast to coast for over six decades.
Embedded: Hamfat Asar, 1965
A much newer one: “Solar Sight I, 2011 at https://vimeo.com/65276487
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No.10899
Still Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La6T8Bq6CsU
The Backwater Gospel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVkDrIacHJM
Nightsatan and the Loops of Doom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqgUWYvT55I
Y'all focusing on the old classics, which are good too, but none of you taking a look at the modern time shorts.
My favorite out of these three is Loops of Doom mainly because its so strange.
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No.10904
>>10899
>Y'all focusing on the old classics, which are good too, but none of you taking a look at the modern time shorts.
True. Personally I find myself overlooking newer stuff, not really as a conscious choice, but because older stuff has had much more time to rise to the top. Newer content is hit and miss, and I have limited time.
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No.10906
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Moons Pool 1973
Abstract vision of bodies in water. Some beautiful images. The audio is manipulated tape loops of speech and music.
You will hear bits from Pink Floyd "Echoes" in the mix (uncredited)
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No.10909
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>>10899
>My favorite out of these three is Loops of Doom
They went for a midnight movie vibe and it worked well. I hadn't heard of Nightsatan before but they're a creative bunch of people. Too bad they didn't raise more money in their crowdfunding campaign. The video should have a lot more views too.
It reminded me of King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard who made a bunch of connected music videos for the tracks on their album.
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No.10910
>>10909
I believe I heard they where making another film!
Havent heard of King Gizzard, will check it out
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No.10949
Vormittagsspuk (1928) aka Ghosts Before Breakfast
Hans Richter
the sound version was destroyed by the Nazis but I found one with new music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUZ3HOkdV2c
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No.10950
>>10949
>the sound version was destroyed by the Nazis but I found one with new music
Hm, maybe Hitler did ONE thing wrong...
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No.10952
>>10906
deleted already? sad, that's a nice one
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No.11038
Hey gang! What do you think of Stan Brakhage the Actor, not the Director...?
(Everyone has to start somewhere)
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No.11040
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No.11043
>>10906
Jesus, and I just watched it a week ago.
Better be downloading the good short films from now on.
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No.11047
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqFOUioAz6k
Sadly this is only available in potato VHS quality. I've emailed a few people from USC, Lucasfilm and others, but have not been able to track down who owns the negative.
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No.11052
>>11043
I got it for you >>11050
>>11047
Have you found anything better than that youtube page?
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No.11053
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No.11058
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No.11076
>>11052
>Have you found anything better than that youtube page?
Nah, emailing various studios, curators, colleges etc just lead to dead ends.
I've thought about writing a physical letter to Lucas, but I feel like it wouldn't be seen by him.
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No.11264
Ghost of OT 301
Makıno Takashi
https://vimeo.com/89730245
Artificially generated textures and image manipulation. I don't think he actually uses film here, but the video mimics the look of a damaged reel.
>Makıno Takashi is one of the most prolific and adventurous filmmakers working in Japan today and is known world wide for his complex, immersive and overwhelming film experiences. Treating image and sound as elements of equal importance, Makıno produces immense and infinite non-narrative and abstract film works, at once cosmic and organic, which activate the screening space in powerful and dynamic suggestions of depth and infinity..
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No.11266
>>11264
Great find. I'm usually not one for these type of experimental films but this was quite good. The music certainly adds a mood and even humanity to the sterile shit you'd get from Brakhage.
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No.11279
>>11266
I wish it was easier to find good videos on Vimeo itself. I try the staff picks but they are usually boring. With that short I saw it mentioned elsewhere.
It's funny to enjoy watching static for 4 minutes, but that was some exceptional static.
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No.11280
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Stuart Pound - Espace Croisé 2015
This seems to be an exhibition of some of his experimental shorts. This video gives you the experience of walking around to sample them.
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No.11296
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Another similar to the last
This one is an exhibition for Phil Solomon. I never get to attend these so I'm glad to find a few videos online.
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No.11595
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Året gjennom Børfjord
I won't explain what this is because it's best if you just watch it (fullscreen). I hope youtube quality is okay.
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No.11596
>>11595
On second thought forget youtube. This was shot in 70mm. You'll be much happier with 1080p: https://ulozto.net/!SxXmw76t7/aret-gjennom-boerfjord-mkv
After watching you'll want to read all about it: http://www.cameramagica.no/About_Year.htm
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No.11705
>>11595
>>11596
This is great.
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No.11742
Vimeo embed. Click thumbnail to play. I found a cool short about optical illusions
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No.11825
Vimeo embed. Click thumbnail to play. Slow Life - time lapse photography of underwater organisms
Similar to Das Blumenwunder
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No.11836
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkhNED3-mnI
A short vision if you're into fears of the A-Bomb
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No.11852
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Impressions of Expo 67
A beautiful and optimistic short. Somehow I had not seen footage of Montreal World's Fair before. Looks like fun!
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No.11854
>>11852
not one but two monorails. very nice.
is all of that stuff still standing in Montreal?
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No.12456
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Free Fall (1964)
Propelled to international attention through an Oscar nomination at the age of 25, the legendary National Film Board artist Arthur Lipsett remains an anomaly within avant-garde film histories. Uneasily oscillating between a personal, artisanal tradition and the NFB’s institutional mandate “to interpret Canada for Canadians,” he was a popular experimental filmmaker whose eccentric, satirical collage films were renowned around the world.
Free Fall features dazzling pixilation, in-camera superimpositions, percussive tribal music, syncopated rhythms and ironic juxtapositions. Using a brisk “single-framing” technique, Lipsett attempts to create a synesthesic experience through the intensification of image and sound. Citing the film theorist Sigfreud Kracauer, Lipsett writes, “Throughout this psychophysical reality, inner and outer events intermingle and fuse with each other – 'I cannot tell whether I am seeing or hearing – I feel taste, and smell sound – it's all one – I myself am the tone.'”
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No.12472
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The Glass Harmonica (Стеклянная гармоника, 1968) by Andrei Khrzhanovsky
>At first glance, one would think The Glass Harmonica would fit right into the long tradition of Soviet propaganda films begun by Vertov. As the opening titles state, it aims to show the “boundless greed, police terror, [and] the isolation and brutalization of humans in modern bourgeois society.” And yet, the film offended censors due to what the European Film Philharmonic Institute calls “its controversial portrayal of the relationship between governmental authority and the artist.” There’s more than a little irony in the fact that the only fully censored Soviet animation is a film itself about censorship.
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No.13621
Raúl Ruiz - Le film à venir AKA The Film to Come (1997)
A quickie from Ruiz:
https://vimeo.com/34547386
Watch it, then read this essay examining the short and Ruiz in general:
https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/foreplays-16-raul-ruiz-s-le-film-a-venir
<Ruiz loves setting up a mystery, and Le film à venir is a great example of how skillfully and speedily he can do that. He often dresses his films with the elements of a (more or less) traditional intrigue: ghostly settings, clues and riddles, strange deaths and wayward investigations, hidden enigmas and disguised identities. The spectator gets easily hooked onto these mysteries that invite us to apply our logical, deductive skills in order to decipher the paths, and find the master key that unlocks secrets. All this is part of Ruiz's game—his game of appearances—but it's not his final aim. Even in his theoretical texts (such as the Poetics of Cinema book series), Ruiz tends to proceed in this rhetorical mode of disguise: he presents a problem or situation; starts unfolding it via clear-cut dualities, divisions, or categories; and, just as we feel we are en route to some conclusion, he surprises us with a shift of perspective, a reversal of the terms, with new examples and additions that further complicate matters. With Ruiz, we feel we are always beginning anew—and never in the same way as before.
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No.13622
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This one really made me laugh.
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No.13623
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No.13624
>>13623
I like it, played very realistic
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No.13630
>>13624
Indeed. This short is directed by Ruben Östlund, the guy who directed Play (2011) Or his most famous i presume: The square (2017).
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No.13812
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<"Isle of Flowers" (Portuguese: "Ilha das Flores") is a 1989 Brazilian short film by Jorge Furtado.
Has this been posted before? Maybe not because I can't find a very good version of it on youtube. It should be PT audio w/ EN subs, but those versions are shit quality, so here is one with EN audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdtvyiHuTSo
It's a good short, a tad overrated, but worth seeing. It's got a frenetic pace of free associated images concerning the life and death of a tomato.
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No.14171
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No.14367
Sergio Leone commercial for Renault 18 Diesel, with music by Ennio Morricone
I don't think Edda dell Orso is singing though
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No.14502
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Amelia and the angel (1958).
If any of you have kids, show them this short. If you don't; enjoy the tenderness of it, and the amazing performance of the girl.
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No.14817
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No.14891
A fairly new short I like a lot is Altiplano which utilizes a lot of natural environments. I'd really like to visit these places.
>Malena Szlam's magnificent follow-up to Lunar Almanac employs superimpositions and other effects to recast the lakes, salt flats, and volcanic deserts of Northern Chile and Northwest Argentina as psychedelic, otherworldly landscapes.
Since it's not on youtube here's a mega link https://mega.nz/#!715RxCCB!MHUFpbyfH-IKtI1ippv5nV9jzfyYyS_0cClC8YHqg5c
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