Awesome Short Films

Get to know the dashing and nonchalant explorer Nathan Drake all over again. Martin Sofiedal’s fan film is a shot-for-shot remake of the opening of the PS3 game Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune – other than Drake speaking Danish, that is.

A master and his apprentice turn a wasteland into small celestial bodies. Ambition promotes the International Rosetta Mission, which sent a spacecraft to orbit comet 67P/C-G and will soon drop a lander on the comet’s surface.

As part of his 2010 film Il Capo, artist Yuri Ancarani captured this footage of the work that happens every day in an Italian marble quarry, as the chief on the job site directs construction equipment like the conductor of an orchestra.

An animated short film that will be shown in theaters alongside Big Hero 6. It’s about a dog that has such poor eating habits that he eventually turns into Baymax. Then he goes vegan. At least that’s what we think it’s about.

Ambition is a mysterious sci-fi film starring Aidan Gillen (The Wire, Game of Thrones) and directed by Platige Image’s Tomek Bagiński, the man behind the awesome teaser for Cyberpunk 2077. It will premiere at the 2014 BFI sci-fi event.

(NSFW: Language) A young girl living on the outskirts of a derelict town is forbidden by her father to go outside, and for a good reason. Bridle Path Films’ short film is about, power, responsibility and acceptance.

David Weinstein’s short science fiction film explores the relationship between a boy and a powerful, but misunderstood alien. It’s kind of a live-action homage to The Iron Giant., but it also stands on its own. (Thanks David!)

/DRIVE’s short interview with Davide Testi. Davide started out as a mechanic in Pagani and worked his way up to become a test driver. Now he gets to build Huayras with Horacio Pagani and his company car is a Zonda R.

(NSFW: Language) Jared Eberhardt’s two-part profile of the jaunty graphic designer and entrepreneur Aaron Draplin, co-founder of Draplin Design Co. and Field Notes. Your Pinterest board’s got nothing on his piles of junk.

The New York Times sent a group of second graders to Daniel, one of the swankiest restaurants in New York City. With their tasting menu running $220 a person, will the kids embrace fine dining, or think it’s just weird?

It’s 1964. Joe comes home after a hard day’s work, but his wife doesn’t greet him at the door, and dinner isn’t ready yet. Francesco Calabrese makes great use of color and props in this dark subversion of domestic life.

Three years after the last installment, Alan Becker presents his new and Kickstarter-funded Animator vs. Animation short film. His stick figure nemesis is reborn, and it quickly gets personal. Hilarious and endearing.

Cirque du Soleil teamed up with ETH Zurich and Verity Studios to create this short film titled Sparked, which combines Cirque’s trademark whimsy with an impressively choreographed drone flight. Go behind the scenes here.

The essential elements required to make an impactful short film are all present in this French student piece, in which we meet Leo, a high tech pet robot, living all alone in Paris following the strange disappearance of nearly all living species.

Two middle-aged losers dream of becoming musicians. Comedians Greg Bratman and Dusty Brown play fictionalized versions of themselves in this endearing short. The Nobodies is 100% cheese, with a few familiar faces sprinkled in.

Deviant Pictures Films’ entry to the 2014 Saxxy Awards is a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive machinima. It’s based on a fan-made mod where the counter-terrorists have to defuse a bomb that’s strapped to a chicken.

Riots, paintings, stars and illusions abound in this time-lapse short film about “the idea that creation and destruction might be the same thing.” Artist Jeff Frost spent a total of two years taking and editing over 300,000 photos for the film.

A veteran cyborg soldier ruminates on his actions – wondering whether he’s done anything worthwhile or if he believes that this is his purpose – as he makes his way to yet another battle. Or not.

(NSFW: Language) The talented folks at Art & Mechanical put together a stylish short film here. Just when we think one of the characters is going to meet his maker, things take a turn when a mysterious box arrives. (Thanks Alex!)

A man passes by an overturned box on the sidewalk. He stoops to peek into its hole, and finds a pair of eyes staring back at him. Nirvan Mullick’s stop-motion short was inspired by Kobo Abe’s eponymous novel.

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(NSFW) Pete’s old acquaintance comes back to bite him in the ass. Or is it the other way around? Matt Hardie’s award-winning short film will entertain and confound you, but not necessarily in that order.

Steve Cutts imagines how Jessica Rabbit and other washed up cartoon characters have been doing since they’ve gone from the spotlight. In short, Steve made an all-star version of BoJack Horseman. Seriously folks, watch that show.