Short of the Week

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    Western Bo Mathhorne

    The Backwater Gospel

    The Grim Reaper waits patiently as the residents of a small western outpost turn on one another in this student film from The Animation Workshop.

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    BMW Activate the Future Part 3: Reinventing Mobility

    3rd of this 4 part BMW series debuts today, titled "Reinventing Mobility". In this installment our crew of talking heads gets a little more concrete about what we can expect around the corner from our automobiles.

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    Looking for Love?

    Oh yeah, it's that day of the year. It's a good blogging tip to have appropriately themed content for special occasions and holidays, but I've got nothing new.

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    Sci‑Fi Grzegorz Jonkajtys

    The 3rd Letter

    High-level CG is married to live-action in a haunting dystopian vision of a world where humans utterly depend on bio-mechanical alterations to withstand a deteriorating climate.

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    Documentary Zackary Canepari & Drea Cooper

    Uppercut

    Silicon Valley coders formed a real life fight club to escape their everyday lives.

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    Oscar Short Films in Theaters Today

    If you live in the US, UK or Canada, you may be able to see the live-action, animated and documentary Oscar-nominated short film programs in a theater near you starting today. Shorts International is again the driving force behind this great series.

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    BMW Activate the Future: Part 2: The Future Just Isn’t What it Used to Be

    My particular bent is to render an optimistic future because we are rehearsing for our own future—why not do it as pleasantly as possible? —Syd Mead The next installment in the BMW short documentary series: Activate the Future dropped today with part 2: "The Future Just Isn't What it Used to Be". Much of the same cast of talking heads from part 1 join us again, and this time talk about how the sci-fi has historically gotten major transportation advances wrong; plus why there is such a difficulty in predicting the course of future developments.

  • Interview

    Q&A with Kirby Ferguson (Everything is a Remix)

    Part 2 of Everything is a Remix dropped days ago and, based largely on its growing base of supporters, has since found an online audience of hundreds of thousands. We caught up with director, Kirby Ferguson, to find out how he managed to pull it all off.

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    Documentary Kirby Ferguson

    Everything is a Remix

    Good artists copy—great artists steal. How everything from music to movies is influenced, based on, or derivative of previous genius.

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