Short of the Week

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    AFI Fest 2010 Short Film Showcase

    Titular character of Marcel the Shell While festivals and online outlets still exist as two different worlds, it seems that every online mainstay wants to become a festival (see YouTube Biennial, Vimeo Festival), and every festival wants to have a presence online. We've covered Cannes and Sundance's forays, and now at the end of the yearly festival season the American Film Institute's AFI Fest has a turn with a selection of 11 shorts available through its website.

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    Drama Virgil Widrich

    Copy Shop

    An Oscar-nominated film about a copy shop clerk who accidentally duplicates himself and sets off a chain reaction of unintended consequences—filmed from 18,000 photocopied frames.

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    Documentary Paul Rojanathara & Davis Johnson

    Influencers

    A look at the power of influential ideas and their ability to rapidly infect our culture and everyday lives.

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    Sci‑Fi Malcolm Sutherland

    Umbra

    A space traveller finds himself on a planet filled with tiny suicidal men.

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    Drama Peter Sollett

    Five Feet High and Rising

    Driven by the prospects of love, young Victor walks his neighborhood in Manhattan's lower east side struggling to find his place in a world of dominance and empty promises

  • Horror

    Halloween Horror Playlist

    Watch our creepiest films—from the gorific Treevenge to the zombie romance, I Love Sarah Jane.

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    Music Video Kanye West

    Runaway (Kanye West)

    A swan-woman explores the perils of modern life in this stylish experimental film from hip hop artist Kanye West.

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    Parody William Campbell

    The Nature Between Us

    Relive the teen serial dramas of the 80's with a decidedly modern twist in this short made by special effects mavens Team G.

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    YouTube Play: A Biennial of Creative Video

    Right on the heels of Vimeo's successful celebration of itself with their own Vimeo Festival, YouTube came out last night with an exclusive event at New York's Guggenheim Museum to celebrate the best work on their site. The event was a celebration of YouTube Play, touted by the company as a "biennial of creative video.

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