Posted 11/13/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Ilya Chaiken Blacks Out
Shot on a dime, 'Blackout' is a funny, genuinely unsettling look at an unfortunate hookup in the midst of the big power outage of 2003.
Posted 11/06/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne Laments the Plight of the Bathroom Attendant
'Rent-A-Person' is a hilarious musical pastiche about a young, lovesick men's-room attendant who decides to become a visionary entrepreneur.
Posted 10/30/08 in Vulture
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‘Splinter’ Director Toby Wilkins Goes Kidney Shopping
See Wilkins's creepily hilarious 2006 short 'Kidney Thieves,' starring Ethan Embry, Paget Brewster, and Paul F. Tompkins.
Posted 10/23/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Branan Edgens Would Like to Sell You David Lynch’s Coffee
'The Darkest Coffee' functions less as a commercial and more as a four-minute creepfest about the experience of consuming said hot beverage.
Posted 10/16/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Myna Joseph Follows Creepy Sisters Into the Woods
Fair warning: 'Man' is not an easy film to watch.
Posted 10/09/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Jonas Åkerlund Makes a Music Video Without the Music
'The Hidden' features no soundtrack — but it's easy to see from it what makes Akerlund such a great music-video director.
Posted 09/26/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Andrew Cooke Laments the Plight of the Fake Yogi
Andrew Cooke's hilarious mockumentary follows a yogi who might be longing a bit too hard for the trappings of modern life.
Posted 09/18/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker David Bond Flunks Art Class
'Lions Are Green' is about a young colorblind boy who draws a green lion in class and gets called out for it.
Posted 09/12/08 in Vulture
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Filmmakers Nathan and Keary Kensinger Open a Secret Commie Bookstore
It's the best film about a secret commie San Francisco bookstore you'll ever see.
Posted 08/28/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Kentucker Audley Says There’s Gonna Be No Dancing
Audley's short is an intense, despairing look at obsession and the twisted nature of attraction.
Posted 08/21/08 in Vulture
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Here Comes the Story of the Hurricane, Says Filmmaker Paola Mendoza
Mendoza visits her Colombian grandmother as she deals with the wreckage of her Mississippi home following Katrina.
Posted 08/14/08 in Vulture
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Fight Back Against High Gas Prices by Watching a Short Film About a Bike
Are there any other human-powered vehicles that get their own film festival?
Posted 08/07/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Azazel Jacobs Loses a Wheel
It’s wordless, it’s simple, it’s three minutes long, and we can’t stop watching the damn thing.
Posted 07/31/08 in Vulture
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‘The Vampire’: Some Animals Were Harmed in the Making of This Picture
The cuddliest guinea pig ever takes one for the team in order to demonstrate a vampire bat’s deadly capabilities.
Posted 07/25/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Stephen Kellam Mourns Old Penn Station, War Victims
Kellam's 'Forever Yours' is a short and hauntingly simple tale of love and loss during wartime, set in the old Penn Station (utilizing computer graphics to re-create it).
Posted 07/10/08 in Vulture
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See David Gordon Green’s Early Short Film ‘Physical Pinball’ Before Getting Baked at ‘Pineapple Express’
Before he directed 'George Washington,' David Gordon Green created this short film about a tomboy and her father.
Posted 07/03/08 in Vulture
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Animator Fujio Tanabe Makes the Darkest-Ever Short Film About Home Refrigeration
'Fridges' begins as a touching little film about an abandoned refrigerator trying to get by in the world, but turns into something way more disturbing.
Posted 06/26/08 in Vulture
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Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe in ‘Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe’
Um, we don't really know what else to say here. He eats his damn shoe.
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