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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.2592
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>>2591Forgot to mention, that is The Man Who Planted Trees
And here's A Computer Animated Hand
> Produced in 1972 it is believed to be the world's first computer-generated 3D animation. It was created by Ed Catmull, one of the founders of Pixar at the University of Utah. It was also one of 25 new additions recently added to the US film archive, short-listed from 2228 films nominated by the public due to its cultural and historical significance. Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.2593
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Lambert & Co. or Dave Lambert Audition at RCA (1964)
> Dave Lambert had been a hero of mine ever since I left Chicago for New York in the forties, long before he’d begun the famous Lambert, Hendricks and Ross trio, when he was an arranger for Gene Krupa. While we were building a studio on 45th Street for fledgling-film company, Leacock Pennebaker, Bob Van Dyke, our audio genius, introduced me to Dave, and got him to help us finish it. Dave, it turned out, was a first rate carpenter. When it came up that he had an audition at RCA for a new group to record songs he had just written, we went along with him and filmed the session. RCA decided not to go for it, and wiped the tapes, so we stuck our unedited film up on a shelf and left it there.
> Several months later, while helping someone fix a flat on the Merritt Parkway, Dave was hit by a car and killed. A few weeks later, Art D’Lugoff from the Village Gate called and said he’d heard we had a film of Dave and could he show it at the wake. Nick Proferes and I spent that night editing and got him a print the next day. A few days later a reporter from German TV who’d seen it, came around and asked if he could show the film in Germany since Lambert was so well known in Europe. We gave him our print and forgot about it. Then, letters started coming asking where to get the record. But there wasn’t any record, nor would there ever be one. All there was was this fifteen-minute film of a few incomplete rehearsals of songs that otherwise didn’t exist. It hit me that this was really what film should be doing, what I should be doing … recording people and music as a kind of popular history that might otherwise not exist. It was only a few weeks later that Albert Grossman walked into our office and asked if I was interested in making a film about his client, Bob Dylan.
> D A PennebakerThe version on vimeo may have slightly better quality:
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No.2594
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Bass on Titles (1977)
with some moron's watermark on the video
> Bass on Titles provides a rare opportunity to hear Saul Bass' own words, as he describes his most notable work.
> The film explores the title sequences from: The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), West Side Story (1961), Walk on the Wild Side (1962), It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), Seconds (1966). Bass also provides fascinating insight into some of his lesser known titles: Grand Prix (1966), Nine Hours to Rama (1963), The Victors (1963), In Harm's Way (1965), The Big Country (1958).
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No.2595
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The Tell Tale Heart (1953)
narrated by James Mason
> "The first animated short film to be rated X by the British Film Board of Censors."
> One of the most discussed and imaginative cartoons of any era. It tells the famous Edgar Allan Poe story of the deranged boarder who had to kill his landlord, not for greed, but because he possessed an "evil eye." The killer is never seen but his presence is felt by the use light-and-shadow to give the impression of impending disaster. According to UPA, the art style was derived from Eugene Berman, scenic designer and ballet designer of NYC's Metropolitan Opera. Written by Les Adams
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No.2602
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Since this thread seems to do with animation here's the earliest known animated film made in 1908.
..and it's only a few hundred kilobytes too large to download from youtube as a webm and post here. I'm always on the verge of editing and uploading webms but I don't know if the admin will eventually increase the allowable filesize. So for now I'll add this to my list of webms to make in the future.
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No.2603
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And the animated scenes from the movie The Charge of the Light Brigade done by Richard Williams.
Not really a short but still amazing on it's own.
And we have dice rolls here?
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No.2604
Ja, dice rolls for choosing a random film from a numbered list
…or just for fun
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No.2609
>>2602Yeah, it's easy enough to just post a yt link. I tend to make long webms so I'm always bumping against the 8 MB limit.
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No.2617
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bending the rules a lil bit with a self-contained segment from amazon women on the moon…
son of the invisible man!
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No.2632
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I'm glad this is on youtube, posted only a few months ago
High Steel (1965)
> This short film is a fascinating portrait of artisanal skill, marginalized labour, and the growth of an iconic city. Take a trip to dizzying heights with this stunning documentary following the Mohawk Indians of Kahnawake who work in Manhattan erecting the steel frames of skyscrapers. The Mohawks also relate stories from their quieter community life on the Kahnawake Reserve in Quebec. https://www.nfb.ca/film/high_steel/ Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.2641
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My favourite Jan Svankmajer's short: Food (1992)
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No.2662
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Montage of HG Clouzot's test footage for L'enfer
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No.2761
This is pretty fucking amazing but it is contemporary so it might be difficult for some to understand the humor
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No.4220
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A rare collaboration between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney.
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No.4231
>>2761Oh hey it's that girl from the color wheel. I got the humor of this up to a point but don't really get the ending or reason for the incurable disease, care to explain?
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No.4246
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It's marketed as a comedy but I don't see it as one at all.
It was directed by Alan Resnick, who does a lot of awkward "comedy" stuff in a similar vein to Tim & Eric, although ultimately he comes off more to me like a performance artist, and a very fucking brilliant one at that.
I look at this as a film about the overuse of drugs or other bad habits as a means to escape the realities of responsibility, death, thinking unpleasant thoughts, dreams that could never be achieved, so on. Lots and lots of interesting subtext, especially for a short film only 10 minutes long
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No.4253
>>4220This was surprisingly good.
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No.4254
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No.4255
>>4246Are you fucking kidding me? Stop smoking so much grass and never leave leleleleleddit again.
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No.4256
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Here's an impressive experimental short I'm almost certain no one has seen. The creator posts on another forum I visit which isn't even focused on film. His solo project KERNADAM has always stuck with me so I want to share it with everyone here…
> Originated on 16mm film, a mythic liquid journey to points unknown or known?> Copyright D.A.V. 2005
> If you like this movie, I'm poor and could use food money, it's available at http://www.amazon.com/Kernadam/dp/B00NTAT8ME Disclaimer: this post and the subject matter and contents thereof - text, media, or otherwise - do not necessarily reflect the views of the 8kun administration.
No.4266
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My absolute favourite short film
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No.4267
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A close second
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No.4268
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And in a respectable 3rd place
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No.4346
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A masterpiece of minimalist cinema.
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No.4347
>>4346That was amazing! I wonder what the artists inspiration was…
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No.4350
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No.4679
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I dare you to post something more fun than HUPFEN
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No.5046
>>4679
This was actually pretty fun
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No.5320
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Casus Belli 2010
This is an interesting take on Greece, although I kept trying to think of ways to improve it.
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No.6338
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could you guys post the names of youtube embeds just in case the video goes down?
here is The Inner Eye (1972) by Satyajit Ray
> This short film brings out the varied aspects of the famous blind painter Shri Binode Behari Mukherji. Shri Binode Behari even after his blindness in the later part of his life has created beautiful paintings through his inner eye. Satyajit Ray has portrayed the great personality of this blind painter with subtle touches and master handling.
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No.7993
Ménilmontant is bittersweet silent gem, and a bit enigmatic due to the intentional lack of intertitles. It was made in Paris by a Russian so there's a blend of the two sensibilities. I think you'll like it!
https://youtu.be/DHQH9DoO0gk
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No.8055
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No.8175
>>4346
This is in itself captures the essence of life and death. The tranquility of nature, the drip drip drip sounds of the sap lightly falling into its new aluminum bucket home, the composition and angle of the shot.
I would imagine for most it takes us back to our childhoods. My father was a lumberjack and I used to spend my summers and falls with him in the harsh Yukon territory where he would give me a stick and tell me to play with myself in the forest all day.. Oh what games I would play!
This sap is like the tears of the forest but not out of sadness - out of compassion and understanding. The forest knows that we need sap for our pancakes and they actively allow us to drink the trees.
I remember sitting around the campfire and listening to the stories told by the other loggers and how some forests the trees would move and not let you cut them down, that's why the forest loggers created green peace to trick the forest into thinking that we cared. Now the loggers control both the logging and environmentalism and use both to achieve one goal - obtain the sap.
He who controls the sap controls his pancakes and as all of us Alaskans know, breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
I'm literally crying as I type this. Thanks for bringing these emotions out of me.
Take care and godbless.
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No.8177
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No.8182
Who here has the most boring experimental short? I will nominate this 3 minute stationary shot of a flashing casino sign in Dubai.
https://vimeo.com/6976956
Trypps #5 (Dubai)
(3:00, 16mm, color, silent, 2008)
APP APPAP APP APAPPAP APP APP APP APAPPAPAPPAP APPAPAPP
A short treatise on the semiotics of capital, happiness, and phenomenology under the flickering neon of global capitalism.
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No.8187
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No.8195
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this isn't boring, it's a fucking volcano that popped out of the ocean to form an island
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486023/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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No.8281
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Сочинушки AKA Russian Dreams (2000)
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No.9698
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P. Bokanowski - Battements Solaires aka Solar Beats (2008)
Cool abstract sounds and images
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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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