from my Twitter feed - #ShortFilmSunday - 05/23/10

I'm considering collating the entire Twitter posted collection to a gallery page. I've been posting #shortfilmSunday for over a year now, but only the last few months are included here right now. It's a humongous task, but there's a lot to savor...

In any case, another bunch from the last two weeks...

"Thinning The Herd" by Rie Rasmussen :: a young albino returns home to find a vicious killer waiting...

"Scratching" by Matt Brown (via @shootingpeople) a boy drifts inward after he sees his mom die suddenly...

"The S from Hell" by Rodney S. Ascher :: a short, tongue-firmly-in-cheek documentary about the scariest corporate symbol in history: the 1964 Screen Gems logo.

"The Door" by Juanita Wilson Pt 1 Pt 2 Oscar nominee: a girl & a nuclear accident

"M.Archer" by John Dayo :: Dad comes home to find some unpleasant surprises...

"Connected" by Jens Raunkjaer Christensen & Jonas Drotner Mouritsen (via Pleasure for the Empire blog) :: survival and greed in a post apocalyptic wasteland

from my Twitter feed - #ShortFilmSunday - 05/09/10

A month since my last update. Never mind the quality, feel the width:

"Rolly Dial's Defining Moment" by Jim Flewitt :: could the babysitter be a witch...?

"Innocent Eyes" by Alex Vivian :: a girl trapped by domestic abuse is offered escape by a new neighbor

"Stalk of the Celery Monster" by Tim Burton :: ...this stuff sells itself, really. an unfinished work

"Grave Misfortunes" by Eugene Thomas :: a lonely cemetery worker stumbles upon a distressed woman...

"Getting Started" by Richard Condie :: a classic animated short about procrastination from @thenfb

"List"by Will White :: Pt 1 :: Pt 2 :: ambitious student short (via @Raydachic)

"Validation" by Kurt Kuenne :: a fable about the magic of free parking (via @s_sachiyo)

"Girls on the Air" by Allesio Valori :: can community radio make change in Afghanistan?

"Two Men and a Wardrobe" by Roman Polanksi :: some baggage just makes life harder (via @shortcinema)

"Run To Me Run From Me" by Ben Garchar :: (via @ShootingPeople) a High School athlete's anorexia & sexual fantasy

"Meet Meline" by Virginie Goyons & Sebastien Laban :: a weird creature sparks a little girl's curiosity

"Salim Baba" by Tim Sternberg :: a man in North Kolkata entertains kids using a hand-cranked projector

#shortfilmSunday extra::
"Pixels" by Partick Jean :: no story, just 8-bit video game love - Pixels attack NYC

from my Twitter feed - #ShortFilmSunday - 04/11/10

another bi-weekly update ::
"The Last 3 Minutes" by Shane Hurlburt :: a mundane existence unfurls into hypnotic past (via @loudpics)

"The Birth of the Goalie of the 2001 F.A. Final" by Mike Leigh :: From his 1975 series "Five Minute Films"

"A Day In Paris" by Benoit Millot :: via @BoingBoing - a "dreamy live-action + 3D animated short"

"Vive La France" by Luke Andrews :: via @shootingpeople - In Nazi occupied France, a child's act of defiance unravels everything.

"Stolen Clothes" by Lee Tarrier :: a photo in a wallet binds a would-be thief & his city-worker victim

"Dark Room" by Johnny Hardstaff :: part of Philips' project selling their Ambilight TVs (via @dutchdosher)

from my Twitter feed - #ShortFilmSunday - 03/28/10

another bumper crop...

"Staring At The Sun" by Toby Wilkins :: an expat Scot, obsessed with his future, seals his own fate.

"Plastic Bag" by Ramin Bahrani :: a discarded plastic bag searches for its maker through a barren American landscape. Voiced by Werner Herzog.

"Personal Jesus" by Joe Carter :: a slacker wonders why Jesus can't afford to buy a round of drinks.

"Second Wind" by Ian Worrel :: two old friends, a cat & a old man, take a journey that becomes a story about life & death.

"405" by Bruce Branit & Jeremy Hunt :: acclaimed short - a jumbo jet crash-landing on a busy LA freeway comes as a surprise to some...

"The Finger Trap" by Julia McLean :: animated short - an elderly man gets stuck in a Chinese finger trap while preparing a surprise anniversary for his wife.

from my Twitter feed - #ShortFilmSunday - 03/14/10

"Logorama" by François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy & Ludovic Houplain :: 2010 Best Animated Short Academy Award winner: see it now in all its CGI glory - it's a hoot

"McCain's Theory" by Marc Cluchler :: "less talk, more eating" - a French short that won the Kodak Award for Best Film

"The Butterfly Circus" by Joshua Weigel :: a story about finding hope in the Great American Depression... (via @GClugo)

from my Twitter feed - #ShortFilmSunday - 03/07/10

I didn't have time to update this last week, so this week is a bumper double issue : )


"The Unrecoverable Loss of Eugene" by Patrick Loehr :: (via @JPeep) a troubled man & his beloved puppet

"Cracker Bag" by Glendyn Ivin :: (via @Kevin_Slack) fireworks and the coming of age

"Britain Isn't Working" by Rocky Palladino :: (via @ShootingPeople) a satire: when everything totally breaks down, what do you do?

"The Open Doors" by James Rogan :: (via @Futureshorts) based on H. H. Munro's story, starring Michael Sheen

"Tangerine" by Alison Peebles :: One man's way of adjusting to retirement

"Cutlass" by Kate Hudson :: ...two young girls who need to learn that good things don't come easily

from my Twitter feed - #ShortFilmSunday - 02/21/10

"Rabbit Punch" by Kristian Andrews :: (via @Futureshorts) a stellar animated short ...kids making life interesting in a small town.

"Prey Alone" by Stephen St. Leger & James Mather :: a stylish action thriller - a cat-and-mouse hunt and a race against time.

"Light Rain" by Neil Horner: "...if we can get through this, we can get through anything" (via @shootingpeople)

from my Twitter feed - #ShortFilmSunday - 02/14/10

"Asparagus" by Roman Wyden :: A seemingly perfect family, and the forbidden desire between two cousins.

"Love" by Cristian Solimeno :: A passionate romance and the ultimate act of love.

"Voice On The Line" by Kelly Sears :: an experimental animation about Cold War paranoia - an official Sundance 2010 selection.

from my Twitter feed - #ShortFilmSunday - 02/07/10

"I Love Sarah Jane" by Spencer Susser :: Young love and the zombie apocalypse...

"The Raftman's Razor" by Keith Bearden :: Two geeky teenage boys follow the story of a superhero.

"Can't Stop Breathing" by Amy Neill :: The price of isolation on a mother & daughter's relationship.

from my Twitter feed - #ShortFilmSunday - 01/31/10

"Night School" by Ben Soper :: two teens break into a school after dark, looking for intimacy...

"Bitch" by Dom Bridges (via @futureshorts) a man buys a can of tuna & gets more than he bargained for.

"All You've Got" by A.E. Griffin :: a battered wife becomes emotionally attached to the cat burglar robbing her house.

from my Twitter feed - #ShortFilmSunday - 01/24/10

"Terminus" by Trevor Cawood :: A man's sanity is tested when he is tailed by strange, ambiguous beings.

"Marcus" by Olu Fashakin :: A social worker gets more than she bargained for when visiting Marcus' mother.

"Ark" by Grzegorz Jonkajtys :: A stylish animated short. With almost the entire human population destroyed, one man leads an exodus.

from my Twitter feed - #ShortFilmSunday - 01/18/10

"Little Terrorist" by Ashvin Kumar - nominated for an Oscar in the Best Live Action Short Film category. A Pakistani Muslim boy accidentally crosses the Pakistani-Indian border which is riddled with landmines...

"Between You and Me" by Patryk Rebisz - a short internationally celebrated for its innovative approach to still photography, using the burst mode — a photo camera’s ability to record a rapid succession of images — in the depiction of a chance encounter.

"Time Piece" by Jim Henson - an experimental short film produced, directed, and written by Jim Henson, who also played the leading role.

from my Twitter feed - #ShortFilmSunday - 12/13/09

"The Shade" by Mohammad Gorjestani :: a hot day, a flat tire outside Tehran, and a chance encounter...

"The Last Time I Saw You" by George Pursall & Caitlin Catherwood :: via @shootingpeople ...20 years of a father's remorse...

"ALPTRAUM" by This Lüscher :: a comical fairytale from @Film_Movement - soccer dreams can come true

from my Twitter feed - #ShortFilmSunday - 11/22/09 AND 11/29/09

missed a week, so here's a double dose ::

"Boomerang" by Carla Drago :: Sometimes just being human is embarrassing.

"Combat Rock" by Blake Hamilton :: a boy discovers a love of music - (techno-kiddies may be excited to know this is shot on a Canon 5d Mark ii)

"The Lunch Date" by Adam Davidson :: A classic - a woman in a train station is confronted by her prejudice

"The Red Balloon" by Albert Lamorisse (recommended by @Kevin_Slack) another timeless classic, this one from 1956

"Rusalka" by Alexander Petrov :: (suggested by @jaypea_aitken) a truly astonishing and beautiful glass-painting animation

"Spirits" by Keith Boynton (via @reel13) ...part of the "12 films, 12 weeks" project... nicely done

from my Twitter feed - #ShortFilmSunday - 11/15/09

"Dunny" by Phillip Van :: a lovelorn 11-yr-old boy tries to deliver letter to his object of desire...

"Swipe" by Max Blustin :: A lazy young man, refused cash by his girlfriend, resorts to other means.

"Bulletproof Vest" by May Lin Au Yong :: Nine-year-old Jyeshria wants a bulletproof vest.

from my Twitter feed - #ShortFilmSunday - 11/01/09

Here are this week's links, somewhat hampered by YouTube being closed down for maintenance::

"Itmanna: Make a Wish" by Cherien Dabis :: (via @TribecaFilm)
a Palestinan girl goes to the bakery...

"Her Name Is Laura Panic" by @AdamWingard
...a sequel to his "Laura Panic", which is available on his website here

"Foster" by Jonathan Newman :: (via @shortcinema)
...a multiple award winning short featuring an impish leading actor...