As the clock ticks closer to Sundance kick-off on Thursday, we thought we'd give you a little bonus preview of some of the Short Films that caught our eye. Most have a trailer and a couple of the full shorts are embedded. All are from Sundance except the final short, Crown, which is in Slamdance. Enjoy!
Fishing Without Nets
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(trailer)
This incredibly impressive short from
Cutter Hodierne about Somali pirates is just dying to be made into a feature. Keep an eye on these guys.
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
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(full short)
I simply can't get enough of this kids video gone wild from
This Is It Collective. I particularly love when the puppets switch to people in suits without losing a beat. So wonderfully wacky!
Bear
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(trailer)
Nash Edgerton (brother of Joel) follows up his hit 2007 short
Spider with this romance with a morbid twist.
Meaning of Robots
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(trailer)
With a running time of only 4 minutes, you've got to think there is a lot of material yet to explore in
Matt Lenski's doc which makes one immediately think of a robo-pornographic
Marwencol.
Fourplay: Tampa
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(trailer)
Children need stay very, very far away from this wacky shopping mall bathroom gay gangbang farce.
Kyle Henry should be admired for his boldness -- but this one is not for the buttoned up type.
It's Such A Beautiful Day
Don Hertzfeldt completes his
Everything Will Be Okay trilogy with this 23 minute short highlighting his incredible style of animation.
The Hidden Smile
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(trailer)
Ventura Durall's Ethiopian street kid drama looks pretty intense.
Hellion
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(trailer)
University of Texas lecturer
Kat Candler's short shows what happens when bad kids go wild.
Moving Stories
I was a big fan of
Nicolas Provost's feature
The Invader so I can only imagine he knows what he's doing with this stock footage short films as well.
Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke
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(trailer)
With a title like that and a description as
"Le Jetée starring 2 Live Crew," how can you not be intrigued by
Jillian Mayer's short? That's a heckofa trailer as well.
The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom
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(trailer)
Lucy Walker's "visual haiku" takes a look at Japan as spring blossoms on the tsunami hit landscape.
Robots of Brixton
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(full short)
CG Robots in England by
Kibwe Tavares. Check it out!
Crown
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(trailer)
There is something very strange going on in the neighborhood in
AG Rojas's ultra-stylish
SLAMDANCE short.