Short of the Week

  • SOTW

    Recovering From Malware Attack

    Short of the Week was just hit by the round of malware attacks affecting many innocent Wordpress blogs over the last couple weeks. Fortunately, Google caught the infection early and prevented the attack from doing more harm.

  • News

    Short Film Articles in NyTimes, Slate

    It's fun when mainstream sites do pieces on short film, and in a rare treat, two such articles were published online today. First up is a brief article and slideshow from the online magazine Slate via is DoubleX blog, where contributor Sasha Watson explores the trend of fashion advertising films.

  • Play
    Sci‑Fi Andreas Salaff

    Lifeline

    70's-era hand-drawn animation about an aging inventor's struggle to find his way home.

  • SOTW

    Philips & Ridley Scott Team Up for 3D Short

    Philips and RSA are at it again for the 6th film in their Parallel Lines series. This one is set to be shot and screened in 3D and released this Fall.

  • Play
    Music Video Tomas Mankovsky

    Ritalin (Dancing Pigeons)

    A wild duel between two backroaders in this music video for Dancing Pigeons.

  • News

    Vimeo Festival + Awards

    From the video site we believe hosts some of the most impressive short films around, comes a much overdue official festival. And they're going big.

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    Documentary Sean Dunne

    The Bowler

    Rocky Salemmo recounts story after story of his wild days hustling money as an accomplished bowler in this well-shot documentary by up-and-comer Sean Dunne.

  • Interview

    10 Questions with Matthew Savage (Reign of Death)

    Reign of Death, the subject of our recent feature review, is one of the most confidently stylish shorts we've seen in a while. Its director, Matthew Savage, has served as a concept designer for several big budget features including The Dark Knight and Kick-Ass, but, not being content with that arrangement, has been stepping up to the director's chair.

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    Experimental Blu

    Big Bang Big Boom

    Argentinian street artist, Blu, takes his freudian creature animations to the massive scale as they move across a desolate cityscape.

  • Festival

    Fluxus 2010 Online Film Fest

    Just stumbled upon something really cool by complete accident! Maybe I should be ashamed to call myself an "short film expert" and not have heard of this since it's in its 10th year, but Fluxus is an online film festival based out of Brazil that combines museum exhibition of short films and installations with a sophisticated online exhibition experience. What that means for us who don't live in São Paulo is that 40 current, high quality festival-circuit films are online right this moment to watch! Still from Bastien Dubois' Madagascar.

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