A woman enters a cafe only to find its diners in complete silence. Then… a man breaks into song. It's a surprising, genre-bending film nominated for an Oscar in 2004.
The Portable Film Festival, an online festival with a number of categories from short films to music videos to art films, has just wrapped up and announced this year's winners. Previous SOTW's, Apricot and Sign Language (which also took the Virgin Media Shorts competition) earned praise this year, but the top prize went to the Spanish music video, Hamor.
Showcase of the 10 best short films from 2010animation, action, drama, sci-fiwatch them all.
The Oscar-nominated animation about a journey across the geographic and cultural landscape of Madagascar.
Separated by the sea, a unique duo pass along details of their lives through a bottle. An elegiac animation of minimalist perfection.
So in my rush to post the new PES film, I failed to realize it was just one in a series of top-notch releases by the premium cable giant, featuring new or web-premiere work by several of the most unique and beloved short-form animators out there. If you love animation you should know these folks and be stoked about this collection Showtime has put together.
Animation master, PES, brings the deep sea to life using nothing but old tools.
It's Christmas time and the zombies are out tearing into helpless co-workers in this innovative film shot entirely in the first-person.
Zombies are taking over the world but this clueless group of slackers is more interested in video games and the girl next door in this Horror/Comedy.
Forbidden love sets off a wild chase between a deer-headed teenager and his girlfriend's hunting father in this illustrative, action-packed film from Supinfocom students.
