Awesome Indie

(NSFW: Language) Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky’s video game documentary has garnered favorable reviews after its Sundance debut. HBO now has plans to make a series based on the film.

Cindy Meehl’s Buck follows the life of Buck Brannaman, a true American cowboy and sage on horseback who travels the country for 9 months a year helping horses with people problems.

(slightly NSFW) Director Chris Marrs Piliero pays homage to B-movies, Robert Rodriguez, and then some for the music video of The Black Keys’ Howlin’ For You, from the album Brothers.

By day Griff is an office worker; by night he assumes his other identity, roaming the streets and protecting the vulnerable from dangers that lurk in the shadows, in Leon Ford’s Griff the Invisible.

We don’t get the whole little kids on the playground thing in this video, but we’re completely wild about the rockin’ sounds of The Black Keys, one of our favorite indie bands at this very moment.

This critical darling follows an enterprising novelty inventor through the backstreets of Shanghai as he tries to get his “humorous domestic hygiene product” made. Premieres on IFC Flims 6/16.

Inanis Aedes, or House of Emptiness, is a very zen 2 minute full CG video about a quiet place in which Movement has many faces, created by French students Meradi Omar and Roussel Beranger.

Indie Game: The Movie, coming in Spring 2011, is a feature documentary about the human side of video games, video game developers and the connections between game and game-maker.

One of the best Flash games ever returns with what we can only call expert mode. The Typing Tutor Edition of Canabalt regularly changes the jump button to one of the keys in the keyboard.

This UK indie tells the tale of two criminals who kidnap a young woman named Alice Creed. But things don’t always work out as planned, and Alice turns the tables on her captors. Opens August 6.

Robert Duvall plays a mysterious man who decides to throw himself a funeral party – while he’s still alive. Lots of Sundance buzz for performances from Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Bill Murray.