Sundance is right around the corner, and we’re excited! For the fifth year running we will be covering the festival’s online program, this year sponsored by YouTube again after last year’s stint at Yahoo!. But, with the ever-growing reach, power and legitimacy of online video, once again we’ve noticed that there is a healthy selection of content picked for Sundance that is available to watch right now! Sundance has been a pioneer in destigmatizing short film’s online, doing away with all their premiere restrictions a few years ago. As a result, they actually look to pad their program out with interesting work from the web. This year the interesting trend is the strong presence of commissioned work. Reindeer originally premiered on the influential fashion film site Nowness. Julia Pott’s latest, The Event, was paid for by UK TV network Channel 4 via their Random Acts program, and both Seraph and Until the Quiet Comes are promos, albeit novel ones, for music albums—highlighting work by Sigur Ros and Flying Lotus respectively. Enough said, here are 6 Sundance-selected short films that will be playing in Park City at the end of the month, but which are available to watch right now.