Short of the Week

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    Experimental Varathit Uthaisri

    Surface

    Watching the dramas of daily life unfold from underneath the surface.

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    Music Video Chris Milk

    The Wilderness Downtown (Arcade Fire)

    Take a trip down memory lane in this interactive music video that draws imagery from your own childhood experiences of suburbia.

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    SotW Arrives on Facebook

    Short of the Week is now rockin' it like 2009! Visit our new Facebook page and click the "like" button to get our curated short film selections right in your news feed. As an added enticement to follow us, we're adding a new category of post which will be FB-exclusive—SotW Recycled—where once a week we'll dip into our now over 3-year back catalog of reviews and recommend a past favorite you might not have seen.

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    Fantasy

    Mei Ling

    Nostalgic yet dark, sexy but absurd, this lovely and unique animation about a young Hong Kong girl, her oft-absent lover and a jealous octopus slowly wraps its tentacles around you.

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    Kon Satoshi: Good Morning; Magnetic Rose

    Word arrived Stateside this morning, not through any official announcement, but through the tweets of his friends and collaborators. Kon Satoshi, one of the leading lights of Anime, director of the films Perfect Blue and Paprika, has sadly passed away at age 47.

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    Action Daniel Brown

    Your Lucky Day

    A $156 million winning lotto ticket turns a convenience store upside-down.

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    Experimental Eran Hilleli

    Between Bears

    Animated minimalism is used to maximum effect in this gorgeous and bizarre short student work from Israel.

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    Documentary Gavin Kelly

    Avatar Days

    What if fantasy characters from World of Warcraft existed in our world? That's what this documentary from Dublin explores, and I in turn explore how the film is perfect representative of short film today.

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    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.

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    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.

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