A colourful, trope-filled short by Dylan Chase in which five Jeebie Scouts attempting to outscare each other with ghost stories are interrupted by a knock at the door.
A little intense for tots but older kids (and you, you big kid) will love it.
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Another elucidating short from German educational design studio Kurzgesagt. This time – vast interventions of the future that might save us from the mess we’ve made of the planet or, equally, doom us.
Previously: Doom And Ploom
In this short by Andrew Kasch for the Just Scare Me showcase, it’s October 31st 2020 and Michael Myers is having the worst Halloween ever, until…
Ice Bodies
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An eye-candiful machine developed by artist and Museum exhibit designer Shawn Lani that circulates dry ice into a shallow tub of water, resulting in captivating cloud-like motion as the frozen carbon dioxide melts.
Full screen for maximum mesmer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c99NfY7S1aA&feature=emb_logo
A recently unearthed clip from the 1970s Children’s Television Workshop kids’ show ‘The Electric Company’ in which actor and voiceover maestro Morgan Freeman (in his mid 30s) plays a vampire with a taste for legumes.
An award-winning Royal College Of Art graduation short by Zohar Dvir about a young millennial and how her over-reliance on a magic 8-ball causes her to delve into her subconscious mind.
1993
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A new instalment of The Hood Internet’s ongoing series of pop mashups: 60 songs from 1993, artfully squished into 210 seconds.
Previously: 1990
An impressive graduation short from six students of the French animation school Gobelins in which Lou goes looking for the precious rollerskates that his mother accidentally sold to a stranger at a swap meet. Of their innovative mix of styles, the team tells SOTW:
We are following Lou’s journey through his eyes and we wanted for the graphic approach to reflect that…The fact is that we mostly used graphic codes that belong to illustration and comics rather than cinema, so that each shot is a different concept that quickly translates the emotion of the scene. All of this allows us to be closer to Lou and to feel what he feels…
A pair of defiant motorbike couriers speed though a near-future world of self-driving vehicles and state surveillance in a light-on-narrative but darkly atmospheric proof of concept showcase for a larger project by Joe Sill and Matisse Tolin. Sill sez of if:
We’ve had the story outline and bible for a long-format version of this project for some time now, and early in the pandemic we dusted it off and began to wonder what a short film excerpt of it would look like…
A pleasingly groovy cover of “You’re The One That I Want’ from Grease by vocalists Antwaun Stanley, Therese Curatolo and collaborative funksters Scary Pockets.