Awesome Short Films

This short from Aardman Animation (home of Wallace and Grommit) shows us everything not to do when we have a pesky fly buzzing around the house. Memo to self: do not order a box of spiders.

Wood is having a bad day from the looks of this clip by Buck. The art direction in this thinly-veiled environmental statement is worth a watch no matter what you think of cutting down trees.

Josh Thacker’s Job Security is the latest winner for Chapter 2 of Vimeo’s The Story Beyond the Still contest; judged by Vincent LaForet, entries for Chapter 3 are due 3/22/10.

Freddie Wong’s Real-Life Portal Gun doesn’t reveal anything new to GLaDOS vets, but it does explain why inter-spatial weaponry in the workplace will make you go GLa-DOH!

Art imitates art history with Swedish band Hold Your Horses’ music video for 70 Million; created by L’Ogre, it features the band members in playfully reconstructed famous paintings.

You’d think after decades of losses against a single, very-determined player that they’d learn, but this Video Game Bosses’ Lament proves that there’s no getting around 8-bit, 2D thinking.

NSFW: Mixing office work with an action movie franchise can only end in lots of sick days, as proven by Die Hardly Working; folks, this is why we only have one Bruce Willis.

Snowball Studios’ Round 6 is actually two stories in one: it’s a trailer for a video game called Fragball (think gladiator football meets Army of Two) which was invented for the sci-fi short film.

Regen is a trippy union of Death Race, Resident Evil and Minority Report with just the barest semblance of a plot, but good god is it awesome: that ball and chain seriously rocks.

If insects make you squirm it’s best to look away, but everyone else Mirko Faienza’s short film of his father’s garden is a cinematographic tour-de-force; it was shot on an HPX500.

Even if the philosophical overtones float over your head, Alex Glawion’s In-Between Ends is easily worth watching if only to soak up the surreal animations and fantastic sound effects.

A crosswalk sign goes on a walk of its own in Tokyo/Glow: the rotoscoped/composited short film features a suit with high voltage LED rope lights and a translucent nylon outer shell.

Self-described as a sci-fi western on a tiny budget, Connected is a dark yet beautifully shot post-apocalyptic short film set in Denmark; we like its favoring of artistic style over exposition.

With a soundtrack set to The National’s “Slow Show”, Tobias Boesen’s Out Of A Forest will either leave you feeling fuzzy or hopping mad; it’s a fantastically shot CG/stop-motion film.

If you liked yesterday’s 1945A, Project Arbiter takes two steps back to 1943 but at least four steps forward in terms of awesomeness; mobile armored suits in WW2 = nuts!

The “A” stands for alternate reality in Ryan Nagata’s 1945A, shot on a $2,000 budget; in it, the Nazis spring a lumbering diesel-punk surprise on the Allies just before the end of WW2.

With the exception of a frisky puppet, Casey Neistat gives us a surprisingly SFW tour of Chatroulette; best part: his somewhat scientific tests yield completely unsurprising results.

Created with Adobe’s Creative Suite, Ghislain Avrillon’s Galileo is fantastically analog in style for such a digital piece; it was traditionally animated frame-by-frame using Flash.

Sure, it starts (and ends) like a cheesy Korean soap opera, but Team Bay’s My Way has a meaty center of awesomery-goodness packed with a German Wolverine, ninjas, and heinous head butts.

Johnny Kelly’s Procrastination seems maddening and even obsessive, but it’s dead-on in conveying the pointlessness of putting things off; while we’re on the topic: get to work!

We’re the first to admit we don’t quite get Mongrel’s Creed, but we’re intrigued by its mix of dystopic sci-fi and black comedy; no word on when the full 11 minute short will be released.

If only all of life was as easy as copying, pasting and undoing: Adobe Photoshop Cook is a whimsical stop-motion short film on making butter cookies; next up: click-drag-ingest.

They say that nothing can keep two people in love apart, but Spy Films’ Nuit Blanche isn’t exactly what we had in mind; gorgeously violent, it’s shot in a slow-mo, hyper-real film noir style.