Awesome Short Films

(NSFW: Language) When they were kids, Dana Saint and his friends loved to reenact their favorite action movies. So for his bachelor party, Dana’s friends reenacted his favorite action movies, with Dana as the unwitting star.

Danny Yourd’s short documentary about Michael Paul Smith, creator of the highly detailed 1:24 scale 20th century dioramas collectively known as Elgin Park. Michael started making models as therapy, then ended up changing people’s lives.

To continue their journey, two explorers tirelessly repair the only bridge over a vast chasm. Le Gouffre (The Chasm) is a simple story, but that such a polished animated film could come from just a three person team is mind-blowing.

(NSFW: Language, Crude humor) Italian-American thugs gripe about the gentrification of their neighborhood in Shaka King’s Mulignans, a brash satire about racism in Hollywood and how it conditions viewers to perpetuate that prejudice.

Corridor Digital was asked to make a short film to promote the upcoming third-person shooter The Order: 1886. As usual, they came through with a funny and exciting video. Just not one that fits the game. Maybe the sequel?

Sola Digital Arts’ unofficial animated short film is set in an alternate universe of Neon Genesis Evangelion, but what unfolds will be familiar to fans of the series. Eva Unit Null is being tested when – surprise! – it runs amok.

Drew McHugh sought satisfaction in all things new. But trends and fads still made him bored, so he rediscovered all things old. Red Giant Films’ modern fairy tale is a parable about materialism. Narrated by Patton Oswalt.

The next time someone asks you what it means to be alive, you could do a lot worse than show them this short film. Breath is a compilation of the ways and the reasons we breathe. Watch The Mercadantes’ other excellent shorts here.

This short animation by WeAreSeventeen pokes fun at an all too common sight, people walking blindly through life staring at their smartphones. We’ve certainly been guilty of this, but sometimes we need to rejoin the real world.

Maybe the dingo ate your baby. A hilarious, but truly warped short film by TomSka that starts out innocently enough but gets really dark really quick. And when we say dark, we’re expecting complaint emails.

Animation studio Simpals has a recurring character called Dji. He’s an angel of death who often bungles on the job. Here he gets distracted while waiting for a shipwrecked pirate to pass away. Check out his other misadventures here.

Threatened with a fatal genetic disease, Hayden Peters turned to the ocean to be reminded that to be alive is to be vulnerable, and that it’s not about how much time you have left, but how alive you were in the time you’re given.

In this amusing promo spot for the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, famed adult star Ron Jeremy finds himself disappointed that the festival won’t consider such great films as The Rod Father and Woodfellas as entries.

A cab driver wakes up in a car wreck with the city in ruins. Before he has time to figure out what happened, zombies appear. Isolated is an intriguing and realistic computer animated short. We hope they finish the story.

(Gore) Can you love someone if it means you have to stop loving yourself? Wonder as you watch Ben Aston’s adaptation of Maria Hummer’s eponymous short short story about a man who skinned himself to please his lover.

An off-world detective is investigating a missing research vessel. He finds the ship but it appears to have skipped time. Sadly, this is more of a concept than a complete film and can’t stand on its own. Very interesting though.

“Perhaps these things could explain why they built them. And perhaps they could explain… everything.” Colin West McDonald’s short film is based on Paul Hornschemeier’s eponymous comic strip from the Project: Telstar anthology.

(NSFW: Language) A man looks back at a tragic moment from his childhood, when one of his friends was publicly humiliated by that friend’s father for dressing up like a girl. Chinonye Chukwu’s short film is based on a true story.

“”What purpose did this machine serve?”, people wondered.” A bittersweet interactive short story from Simogo, the developer behind Year Walk, Device 6 and Beat Sneak Bandits. Warning: the video spoils the entire thing.

A woman overcomes her, uhm, anemone infection and helps others through it as well in Isaiah Saxon and Sean Hellfritsch’s artfully animated music video. Boys Latin is from the must-have album Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper.

Skier Santiago Guzman and a dog named Conga climb up the snowy slopes of Bariloche, Argentina and then playfully make their way down in Ben Sturgulewski’s beautiful short film. The song is Lord Huron’s In the Wind.

(NSFW: Language) “Kung fu is life and death. Especially at Christmas.” Matt Highton’s low-budget film melds horror and comedy, as a group of friends head to an abandoned department store to investigate a horrific urban legend.

A slow-motion short film featuring actual Beretta equipment and craftsmen manufacturing and assembling one of the company’s premium shotguns. It’s half Resident Evil flick and half Wes Anderson 101. More here.