Awesome Short Films

A promotional documentary about Ernie Adams and his collection of dwarf cars. The cars are street legal and modeled after classic cruisers. Ernie built all seven cars by hand and helped start a dwarf car racing scene.

An educational primer on tabletop RPGs – from its militaristic origins to its offshoots and effects on pop culture. Even if you don’t play tabletops RPGs, if you enjoy fantasy fiction or games, you owe it to yourself to watch this video.

An Oscar-winning documentary by Bert Haanstra, Glas is about the glass industry in the Netherlands during the 50s. It forgoes narration, opting instead to augment footage with music and quick camera cuts. A masterpiece.

The Duncan men have a history of dropping dead on their 10,000th day, so when Darby Duncan nears his end, he makes the most of it with a new friend he met at his cousin’s funeral. A charming and quirky film by Michael Duignan.

Another retro-infused original Disney Animated Short features Mickey Mouse courting Minnie with his yodeling. Unfortunately, they live right in an avalanche zone. We’re thrilled to see Disney revisit its classic cartoon roots again.

(NSFW: Language) Eric Romero’s hilarious mockumentary asks: what if being a jerk was actually a disease? What if mean people can’t help being mean? How much more infuriating would that make them? Long version here.

The street fashion scene flourished as a reaction to the rise of supermodels. But it’s becoming a parody of itself, threatening to turn into an endless echo, where people yearn to be seen, and bloggers become each others models.

A short film that both depicts and serves as a metaphor of breakups. The brief dialogue is overly dramatic, but you won’t notice or care because of the film’s constant motion and tricks. At once hilarious and heartbreaking.

A trainer shadow-boxes with a huge robot that mimics movements, like the ‘bot in Real Steel. The hunk of steel should require his trainers to know about a thing called “reach”. Made by students at the Platige Academy.

After dropping his beloved flower pot, a man becomes paralyzed by his fear that he too will fall. A moving stop-motion animated short film by Joseph Wallace that reminds us to face our fears and not let them stop us from living.

(NSFW, Gore) The Merc with a Mouth goes head-to-head against the Dark Knight in Super Power Beat Down’s latest episode. Skip to 2:25 for the battle. Their production is top-notch, but we didn’t care for the Catwoman scenes.

(NSFW: Language) A young man loses track of his little sister, and must go to extraordinary lengths to try and find her. A science-fiction mystery that asks more questions than it answers. Directed by Dan Gaud.

There’s a lot of enveloping geometry to fall into in Eoin Duffy’s On Departure; the animated short is a very personal narrative centered around the loss of his younger brother, Emmet. Best watched full-screen with headphones on.

After reading contradictory press coverage about Williston’s oil boom, Colin Archdeacon and Skyler Swezy journeyed to North Dakota to find out what’s really happening. Good mix of interviews and befitting cinematography.

A striking short film about a distraught man holed up with a gun, and his encounter with a medical robot sent to negotiate with him. By Warp, Film4 and Shynola. A prologue for a feature-length adaptation of The Red Men.

“I don’t call ’em cats. They’re little people.” Do you consider yourself a cat lover? Filmmaker Andrew Lang would like you to meet a few people. These folks really love cats. And they don’t care if the feeling isn’t mutual.

An excerpt from Steve Jobs: Visionary Entrepreneur, a documentary based on a 1994 interview with Steve Jobs. It also features interviews with other successful figures in the tech industry about Jobs’ legacy.

17-year-old Tim Doner is a hyper-polyglot: he can speak nearly 20 languages, and is said to be the youngest person to achieve such a feat. How did he do it? Through good old hard work. And by watching TV.

On all accounts, Philip’s life is in limbo – until he comes home one night to find his world turned upside down, which dispatches him on a journey of self-discovery in Jesse Coane’s Table for One.

An Inuit boy and his dog are out ice fishing when they stumble upon a magical conch that does the fishing for him. Or so it seems. An amazing animated short by Iker Maidagan and Dana Terrace.

Tired and frustrated after a long day, a man snaps when the pay parking machine malfunctions and doesn’t give him his change. Then he gets what he deserves.  Or not. A funny animated short by Rebel Banana.

Like many kids, Thin Foot dreamed of becoming a superhero. But which part should he really strive to have? The “super” or the “hero”? A wonderfully shot short film set in Trinidad & Tobago.

(Gore) A band of unlucky – but also dim-witted – hunters encounter an opponent way out of their league. Village elders, heroes and hardened gamers tremble at the mention of his name: Dark Link.