Director Jonathan Miller’s fascinating documentary profile of ultra-Orthodox Jewish comic David Finklestein is the tale of a man looking to find his place in an alien world and using jokes as a means to do that.
Struggling to balance his love of stand-up with his strict religious lifestyle, Finklestein is forced to make a choice between his passion and his community.
He’s funny. You’ll like him.
Taking a break from his usual forays into the natural world, zefrank focuses on the compulsions, quirks, dark epiphanies and daily anxieties of human office workers.
Episode 4 has been a long time coming.
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A clever stop motion short by Charlotte Arene in which a nighttime bedroom takes on the characteristics (and sounds) of an angry ocean before the calm of morning.
Masters of video comparisons Reigawr (statistics – not English – is their first language) calculate the odds of possessing a rare human ability. to wit:
From being immune to pain and electricity, to being a prodigy in music, art or even a human calculator, we shall compare the rarest superpower humanity ever known. What is the probability of being ambidextrous, having unbreakable bones or even super endurance? How many people have Myostatin related muscle hypertrophy? How many are born with a superior IQ above 178? Odds of being born with 5+ octave range or tetrachromacy colour vision?
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An award wining zoetrope-style experimental short by Dutch animator Tess Martin wherein:
Spinning drawings guide us along the flow of energy through our planet, and let us ponder our place in the natural cycle.
So they do.
A varispeed 4K montage by filmmaker Tyler Fairbank combining time lapse and flow-motion to stitch together highlights – from Okavango to Chobe to the Kalahari Desert – of a recent trip to Botswana.
A short by Chinese digital artist Yi Le, inspired by a visit to Norway, featuring a sample from ‘You are a Miracle’ by Alan Watts and thereby telling the strange tale of a planet where mysterious experiments are being conducted to restore nature.
Full screen for the fine detail.
German educational design studio Kurzgesagt weighs up the prevailing science on both frothy-mouthed sides of the milk debate. To wit:
Over the last decade milk has become a bit controversial. Some people say it’s a necessary and nutritious food, vital for healthy bones, but others say it can cause cancer and lead to an early death.
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An extraordinary display filmed at Jemeluk Bay in Bali by Abyss Dive Center Bali instructor Marie-Laure Vergne: juvenile striped eel catfish (Plotosus Lineatus) forming a dense mass, mimicking a much larger single creature to ward off predators.
A short by Edinburgh based animator Dan Castro about not opening up, the pressures we self-impose and the importance of being kind to ourselves. To wit:
After a lifetime of feeling fat, a young man realises that maybe his issues with his body aren’t actually about his body at all.
