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Awesome Short Films

Small Plates

Small Plates

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?

The Shift

The Shift

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.

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Animator vs. Animation IV

Animator vs. Animation IV

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 Drone

Cirque du Drone

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.

FILM_FX: L3.0

FILM_FX: L3.0

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.

The Nobodies

The Nobodies

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.

Defuse on the Fly

Defuse on the Fly

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.

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Circle of Abstract Ritual

Circle of Abstract Ritual

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.

LIFE

LIFE

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.

Souls of Sin

Souls of Sin

(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!)

The Box Man

The Box Man

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.

Law & Order: KFC

Law & Order: KFC

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Bamboozled

Bamboozled

(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.

Where Are They Now?

Where Are They Now?

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.

I’ll Be Fine

I’ll Be Fine

Born with autism, Tim has learned to control his emotions and behavior. However, his parents are blunt and honest about his future, and everyday they fear that their son might regress. But they endure and stay happy together.

Mortal Breakup Inferno

Mortal Breakup Inferno

A man (cowardly) breaks up with his girlfriend. Bad move. To be fair, he does have his reasons. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned in this visual tour de force by Paula Assadourian and her fellow Gobelins graduating students.

Peacekeeper

Peacekeeper

Kai Zammit’s sci-fi film envisions a not-too-distant future London in which police officers are now “Peacekeepers” – who deal out justice in the streets. While it owes a debt to Dredd, Robocop, and Almost Human, it stands on its own.

Ninja Action

Ninja Action

(Gore) You know those stick figure martial arts fight animations? The Ninja Action series is just like that, but turned up to 11. Eleventy billion. Alexey “dex00” Yurevich says he made the first episode over a 9-year period.

Warbird Pilot: Behind the Visor

Warbird Pilot: Behind the Visor

Rob W. Scribner’s short profile of John-Curtiss Paul, an air racer and warbird pilot. John flies and maintains legacy aircraft for the Warhawk Air Museum, a job that he’s well aware is a privilege, albeit a risky one.

Hiccup

Hiccup

A man afflicted with a chronic case of hiccups finally found a cure for his affliction… and ends up talking to a therapist about it. Pigrat Production’s strangely compelling short film delivers a rare yet fitting juxtaposition.

Space Cat Hob

Space Cat Hob

With a visual style reminiscent of Ratchet & Clank, Loïc Bramoullé’s animated film about an anthropomorphic cat and his encounter with a hive of nasty flying critters was a labor of love, created over two years and with no budget.

The Offering

The Offering

In Ryan Patch’s taut short film, a father and son must deliver an offering of items to a mysterious creature. Despite its minimal budget and lack of visual effects, the effective use of sound and lighting makes for an incredibly tense setting.

From Under the Rust

From Under the Rust

A fascinating reverence comes through for steam locomotives in Julien Lasseur and Rustic’s short film which showcases the zeal for this mode of transport from Cleveland’s Charlie Sedgley and the Midwest Railway Preservation Society.

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