Awesome Short Films

The CGI wizards at Charlex created this brilliantly animated film about a day in the life of a rat who finds himself in an extraordinary situation on his quest for an elusive bag of Cheezy Poofs.

Kurt Kuenne’s award-winning short film tells the story of parking attendant Hugh Newman, who can make anyone feel good by complimenting them. Anyone except the girl of his dreams, that is.

Ross Ching’s 3 Minutes, starring Harry Shum Jr. (aka Mike Chang from Glee) and Stephen “tWitch” Boss, is a mysterious thriller that’s jampacked with lots of action, you know, for a three minute film.

A jaw-dropping short film by creative design studio Charlex. It’s probably part of an Audi campaign, but for now Charlex isn’t revealing anything else. Will Audi be selling transforming cars?

Fans of the Ice Age movies should be entertained by this short film, starring everyone’s favorite saber-toothed squirrel as he manages to mess with the Earth’s geology in search of his elusive acorn.

Roger Ebert thinks this short film from Jamie Stuart, documenting the Blizzard of 2010 in New York, deserves to win the Academy Award for best live-action short subject. What do you think?

Lushly directed and well executed, Ben Craig’s Modern Times was made with more love than money and will transport you to another dimension, in less than four minutes. (Thanks Landon!)

In this short film by Ciaran Foy, Melissa and her family are out on a picnic when she encounters faeries. Melissa chases them into the woods, only to find out that she’s not dealing with Tinkerbell.

Buck is just your everyday sort of dude. Assuming everyday dudes were hip animated deer. When he stops by his girlfriend’s house for a visit, her dad isn’t exactly pleased with his new houseguest.

For his thesis, Colin Levy – director of Sintel – wants shoot a version of the short story The Secret Number, about a man who insists that there’s an integer between the numbers three and four.

This brilliantly illustrated, thoroughly entertaining tale of a hungry mutt’s trip through Chinatown combines hand-drawn animation from Shanghai with 3D effects and backgrounds from Australia.

Jason Wingrove’s Compulsion, shot and produced on the new Sony PWM-F3, is part of Seapool: a series of clips from a documentary in production on the Australian ocean pool culture in Sydney.

We like the cinematography and soundtrack as much as the riding from Danny MacAskill in this short film, which follows him on a journey from Edinburgh back to his hometown of Dunvegan.

It may just be a Nike ad, but we appreciate the insight into the runner’s mind, specifically Casey Neistat’s, who carried a small HD video camera with him on runs for 3 weeks to shoot this movie.

Bleak and captivating, Orlando Von Einsiedel’s Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul follows the lives of young skateboarders in the Skateistan charity project in Afghanistan. (Thanks Anthony!)

For some reason, the combination in Peter Miller’s Canon Rebel T2i video of spirited motocross skills, the evocative music of Sigur Rós and the season’s luminous light has us really mesmerized right now.

If you can endure 20,000 spoonfuls of terror, watch Richard Gale’s short, The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon: an epic tale of one man’s encounter with a tenacious murderer.

(NSFW) Want to see K. West’s “noir piece”? Then prepare to sit your ass down for 34 minutes. The short film/long-ass music video is a visual feast, and of course, it’s full of awesome music as well.

Chris Beckman’s short film won a Vimeo Award for best Experimental Film. The premise is simple – take clips from people who drop their cameras while shooting and seamlessly stitch them together.

What would you do if you discovered that you had gotten your hands on a portal that lets you reach inside solid objects? This short film by Phil & Olly gives us their take on that simple premise.

Created as a birthday gift for his little brothers, Chris Schultz put together this action flick featuring little ones Scott and Markus taking each other on in the most violent little kid action since Kick-Ass.

Sintel is a gorgeously animated, dramatic CGI short film produced with the free Blender 3D creation suite and other open-source tools by an international team of artists and developers.

Awesomer fan fave Freddie Wong cranks out another one of his fantasy gun fights, this time with 90210’s Shenae Grimes by his side, who’s also not too shabby with her weapon skills.