Eben McCue’s “Hook, Line and Murder” is a fun, quick short (<3 min.) about "a fishing trip [that] triggers some form of post-traumatic flashback." The sound all seems to be appropriated from various films — music from the scores for Brokeback Mountain and The Dark Knight were pretty easy to spot, but is there anything else you noticed that I didn’t? Eben’s other videos are well worth watching, too, so check out Vimeo page.
Archive for the ‘Short Films’ Category
“Synesthesia” by Terri Timely
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
I don’t think this short, “Synesthesia” by the directing duo Terri Timely (Ian Kibbey and Corey Creasey), really gives you an impression — exaggerated or not — of what synethesia is actually like, as Josh Rothman of the Boston Globe suggests in the post that brought this short to my attention, but it’s an awful lot of fun.
Synesthesia is “the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body,” or a jumbling of senses. Vladimir Nabokov, for instance, saw letters take on colors, and physicist Richard Feynman would see colored equations. My own brush with synesthesia (and only, that I recall) was brought on by psilocybin mushrooms back in college, and I saw dancing colors in the air, sort of like a small-scale Northern Lights, connected to the music that was playing in the background.
“Micro Loup” by Richard McGuire
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
“Micro Loup” is a 2003 animated short by Richard McGuire. It’s about a microscopic wolf, with obvious (and hilarious) nods to King Kong, and it’s the best 7 minutes you’ll have all day.
McGuire’s entry in the Peur(s) du Noirs animated horror short anthology film is one of my all-time favorite shorts, so try to find that on DVD. You can also check out a clip from it, which is only the tip of the iceberg of the short’s full awesomeness, on McGuire’s Vimeo page.
“More” by Mark Osborne
Friday, May 13th, 2011
I just stumbled across “More,” a 1998 animated short by Mark Osborne, who went on to co-direct Kung Fu Panda for Dreamworks (and did a terrific job at that, I should add). I always find it interesting to see early work by directors — especially animators — but the utterly different tone on display here made this a great surprise. It’s only six minutes, so give it a look.