Awesome Short Films

At once bizarre, funny and touching, Over Time is about a group of puppets trying to cope with their creator’s passing. Directed by Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland and Damien Ferrié.

A surreal mix of stop-motion animation composited with a live actor, Lizzie Oxby’s engrossing, award-winning short film was originally released in 2003, but you can catch the entire thing online right now.

An imaginative mind can be a potent weapon for a sleuth, but this man takes it too far. He’s more Johnny English than Sherlock Holmes. A funny little film by Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis.

With all of the attention on this weekend’s Hwy. 405 “Carmageddon” road closure, it’s only right to see what Los Angeles might look like without cars. It’s a little eerie, but a welcome change from the norm.

Mr. Greedy is one mean mofo. He eats little kids for breakfast and collects their heads. Yeesh. But a little decapitation doesn’t stop us from enjoying this brilliantly animated, if a little dark, short film.

Kieran Humphries’ film (aka Final Toastination) should server as warning to those of you who dare to eat food after the expiration date. So next time you reach for that day-old lunch meat, think twice.

The winner of the 2011 Nokia Shorts Competition, JW Griffiths’ Splitscreen: A Love Story was shot entirely on a Nokia N8. Hardly a new concept, but still well executed. Making of video here.

A young filmmaker adds an extra gadget to his Amazon cart and gets more than he bargained for. A clever way to advertise Magic Bullet Suite 11, the effects package used to embellish this short film.

Sit back, chill out, and watch as director Eli Stonberg captures the skateboarding moves of Aryeh Kraus with seven separate, yet synchronous camera angles, including six point-of-view shots.

Directors Tuomas Vauhkonen and Jeremias Nieminen take us on a visually and aurally compelling journey to a Lahti, Finland for a little visit with the local police force.

Directed and produced by Fabian Grodde, Crossover is quite blatant in its message. But it delivers it in a deft and subtle manner, combining a real miniature setting with realistic CGI insects.

In Atomic Production’s French fan film, Bruce Wayne continues to battle his demons as he ages, but the Dark Knight must fight one final battle with an unlikely foe and an equally unexpected ending.

Joe Ayala and Larry Chen found themselves stranded overnight at DFW airport, and took the time to goof off. Apparently security deemed they weren’t a threat and let them record their antics.

Enjoy a baguette and a glass of Merlot as you enjoy Animator Cédric Villain’s humorous take on the wide array of French stereotypes in the short film Cliché ! French-speakers, watch it here.

Even the Japanese know how silly they can get. Tetsuya Nakashima’s short film will leave you in stitches even if you don’t know a lot about super sentai. How does this not have a billion views?

VFX director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan brings us this tale of root vegetables, muscle cars, and little fuzzy bunny rabbits. Yep, it sounds weird. It is weird. But in a good weird sort of way, we assure you.

In Hambuster, food eats you. A fun, gory and masterfully made short film from the minds of five deranged and talented graduating students from the computer graphics university Supinfocom Arles.

We’re not quite sure what to make of Chris Ware and John Kuramoto’s offbeat short animated film about a mouse and his decapitated partner, but there’s something surprisingly endearing about it.

A brilliant short film about two containers of milk, made by Catsnake for Friends of the Earth. The props and scenes are so effective, we constantly had to check if the containers were animated.

(NSFW: Language) Jeff Chan’s short film starts out innocently enough, but within seconds, he turns the one of the most popular YouTube clips of all time into a bloody good zombie flick.

Sam Klemke captured a small bit of his life every year for the last 35 years, compiling them all into a bittersweet clip that moves backwards in time all the way back to when he was 20 years-old.

(NSFW: Language) Lets be honest. The average house cat isn’t particularly menacing (except maybe this guy). But give them some tanks, and they can cause just the slightest bit of trouble.

A fridge full of leftovers contends with encroaching frost, doing what they need to do to survive in this offbeat short film by Dave Green, with a special appearance by David Cross as Ham Sandwich.