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Loner freak out classic Taxi Driver gets the trailer remix action so popular nowadays. It talks right to our hearts... or at least it mans up to do so while glaring at itself in the mirror. Can you wait until someone gives us the inevitable Mel Gibson's Triumph Of The Will? We can't.
Taxi Driver [iFilm]
Team Tiger Awesome shove their tongue down the parted lips of the 80s with this episode of their show. Bob Uecker is still upsetting. We ourselves await the Boy Meets World references from the 90s loving individuals who will one day follow in their stead.
Check out this stop motion short in which a few magic cupcakes get together. Sort of like when the elves would build shoes for the elderly shopkeeper who was kind to them when they were in bird form, but more like ants at Chong's house. With thanks to Ben.
Baked Goods [milkfat]
Directed by Casimir Nozkowski (of Time Mistake) and written by Will Carlough (of Robin's Big Date) Blood Brothers is the tale of two less than motivated vampires who have to figure out what to do after their jobs at the blood bank, well, dry up.
Team Tiger Awesome, of 28 Days Slater fame, present the time travel/beach volleyball opus Professor Hoofnagle's Buried In Time:
Probably just as well that these two can't biologically have kids... they'd be like Truman Capote reading The Dude's lines from The Big Lebowski, and they'd almost certainly sit next to us on a long bus ride. They'd probably also have colds.
Randy & Steve [American Films]
Via Joel Samuel, who explains:
"The late James R Buick and his wife Sheila and Joel Produced this campy video feature that never saw the light of day until now. Zombies come alive and evil forces are subdued in Phoenix by bikers and metal heads."
We know what you're thinking, but if you pulled the security tape at the local 7-11 and saw this on it, you'd frickin' flip out, man.
We seem to have a thing for the recently canceled over at Channel 101, particularly when they've got names like "Blood Oath Of Three Men And A Baby."
Say, we don't know actor Eliot Hochberg personally, so we can't really gauge his own level of amusement, but we have to imagine telling any family members when they ask what you're up to that you're "the dead felon in Blood Oath Of Three Men And A Baby no.2" has to feel pretty fucking neato.
Invisible Engine's short which introduces you to some of the tubes of which the internet is evidently made. Jack Frenetics wants to be your friend.
Short filmmaker Russell Arch (he's darkened our site a few times... and he's not particularly short as far as we can tell, only his films are) created this on spec ostensibly for Fox, who were too busy tying a flaming dwarf to a wagon wheel on the end of a trebuchet to see how far he'd allow himself to be flung for $40 or something (no one steal that, that's our reality television proposal goddamn you) to put Russell's short to use. So, Russell has done what many have short filmmakers done: posted Prison Break-Tattoo on YouTube, That Which Loves All.
Awkward Pictures' fun short which asks a few questions about the universe(s) we live in:
"Do parallel universes exist? If so, would we exist there as well? What if two universes became one? Could we come in contact with our parallel self?"
Yes, sorta, never, and not really.
Hey, we happen to know. Go ahead and ask us something else.
Parallel/Parallel [undergroundfilm]
Flatlife: 21 year old animation student Jonas Geirnaert's graduation project which he entered into the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, where it took Best Short Film.
Pretty little short Film from Slumlord productions. Directed by Courtney Fathom Sell and featuring John Haverty and Gray Hurlburt.
Blue Ribbon Panel presents the fifth in their Classroom series. Principal Brockway does a no-no.
Classroom Episode 5 [underground film]
Henry T. Weiss and Frederick Liddle discuss their inspirations, hardships and more in an exclusive tell-all documentary.
From Zebro.
A man's conscience comes to crash on the couch for a while. From Emphaticemphatic.com
Interesting short film from Steven Soderbergh:
Aaron Yonda and Matt Sloan's Channel 101 tweaking short in which one of the lesser Sith gets out and about.
Chad Vader [channel 101]
A "devastating character piece" peek into the life of pop superstar Michael McDonald from the creators of The Happy Foster Show.
Paul Matusheski's short film in which the hero goes out to a resutrant every night and purposely chokes on his food "to make a hero out of some lucky restaurant patron." A cool idea well filmed.
Based on the Chuck Palahniuk novel Choke (thanks to Bidwell in the comments).
"If a person were to disappear we could still tell a lot about them from objects they left behind. These artifacts become a physical representation of memories and identity, both person and social. We may not directly share the same memories but we can share the same artifacts. These artifacts are not only such personal belongings as photographs and letters, but also the commercial objects we accumulate and become attached to. Shared artifacts connect us."
Deb Prado's atmospheric bit of stop-motion animation sifts over the ashes of someone who isn't there anymore. Made entirely of still pictures from a DSLR camera, with no video used.
Janela [Undergroundfilm]
The world's first time traveler makes a grand miscalculation in the new short film directed by Casimir Nozkowski.
Brian Springer's 1995 documentary Spin, a clever bit of film in which a lot of the back channel news feeds not meant for public viewing reveal the machinations of image mongers during the 1992 primaries, presidential election, Operation Rescue abortion protests, and the LA riots.
Jeffrey Hopkins' funny short Draw the Pirate takes on artistic frustration at its most, well, pathetic: "A man takes an art school entry exam placed on a matchbook. After multiple rejections, he attempts revenge."
Draw the Pirate [undergroundfilm]
Daniel Lee offers up a three minute short described as:
"When a guy returns from his trip to Spain, it takes him less than 30 seconds to annoy the hell out of his friend. If you've ever known someone who returned from a foreign country and pretended to be an instant authority on all things international, then this is the short for you."
We've both done this and been seriously annoyed by this behavior enough to feel like an even bigger douche when we remember our doing this.
Las Ramblas [atom Films]
One-upsmanship among a pair of brothers gets a little out of hand in this short film. Evidently Daniel Elkayam and Jerome Schwartz's Up the Ladder was written, produced, scored, and edited all within 48 hours. We're guessing there's a dead hitchhiker or two invovled in there somewhere.
Up The Ladder [atom Films]
Being hideously wounded by pseudo feudal-era Japan truck stop novelties doesn't necessarily mean the fun bits of your life are over. Also we think we went to school with this guy, and we're sorry.
The Mighty Heroes was a fairly wacky `60s animated series created by the boundary-pushing animator Ralph Bakshi for Terrytoons, otherwise probably best known for Mighty Mouse. The Mighty Heroes featured the bumbling crime fighting stylings of Rope Man, Strong Man, Diaper Man, Tornado Man and, uh, Cuckoo Man. We personally think Cuckoo Man got the shaft pretty hard with regards to super identities.
The Mighty Heroes "The Monsterizer"
"The Junker"
"The Frog"
Interesting bit of trivia: evidently in an episode of Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, the Mighty Heroes retired from fighting crime badly and became bad lawyers with a firm called Man, Man, Man, Man & Man. (Via wikipedia)
Via metafilter
Ben Hibon's spiffy 9 minute animated short for MTV Asia, which seems to be blossoming much like Aeon Flux did before it from a short bit of eyecandy into its own thing entirely.
Kids, find that you're a little logy in the mornings? Enjoy a hearty helping of.. well, kids, with tasty Embry-Os, but one of many animated shorts available at Sam Liberto and Carolyn Main's Cartoon Dance Party site, including Cartoon Dance Party 2003, which is currently featured at atom films.
A clip from newly - picked - back - the - hell - up - by - MTV2 - for - another - season - thank - you - very - much Wonder Shozen: Global Politics in 30 seconds. You know Wonder Shozen, The Enemy watches this on the internets, and becomes stronger through it like Freddy Kruger does with the souls of children. You work for that enemy combatant Helen Thomas, don't you Wonder Shozen. We thought so.
Super Mario, Communist? Squat athletic plumber of the proletariat getting us over capitalism one cutely-scored leap at a time?
Flash artist Lerferz makes the case.
Super Mario Communist [albino blacksheep]
If everybody downloads this, the FBI will have just that much more trouble tracking down who did what once Miss. Portman goes missing.
Bryan D'Alessandro's short film which deals with the hell that is the rodent problem we've all had to deal with at one time or the other in the big city: under-amused doormen.
Mike Dennert's credit card advance-funded 1997 short based on a true story about a man in Kansas who fell into an outhouse while trying to retrieve his money. According to the blurb attached to this YouTube upload, William S. Burroughs said of this film before he died: "first you laugh. Then you gag on your laughter. All of a sudden, it's not funny at all. It's horrible. Horrible and sad. It's Fate." Then evidently Hunter S. Thompson went on to say: "This is a good film. Too good, actually: Extremely Disturbing." That sure is a lot of review.
"Rob Fosse (brother of Bob Fosse) realizes his lifelong dream of assembling a bottomless male dance company. They may not be dancers... but they do dance!"
Who's Out There?-- A 1975 film which "explores the new view of extraterrestrial life now emerging from the results of probes to the planets." Yeah yeah, aliens -- basically, we're tuning in to see Orson Welles do his grumbly magic.
Also, We've gotten some emails that The Critic clip with the frozen peas joke in our earlier Orson post is actually a direct reference to this. We lumped it in with the other goofs. We are thus embiggened with learning. (Thanks to Ryan and Jim.)
Who's Out There? [google/National Archives and Records Administration]
This weekend we were so occupied by masturbating furiously to Queen Latifah's nakedly exposed rubenesque arm cleavage that we missed two of the more popular things to hit the internet; the first being the live action Simpson's opening created for European satellite network Sky One. The other is Natalie Portman's rap thing which will allow SNL to drive the briefly charming cutesy white rap meme thing into the ground like a fucking lawn dart thrown by a cocaine-fueled Chuck Norris.
Simpson's opening:
Natalie Portman SNL Digital Short
Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjarne Nilsson's short with the tagline "ever wonder what it would be like if the cast of Stomp lived in your apartment? This short will give you some idea." Most city dwellers probably understand this just fine, but its still a fine short.
Also "Sweden" is now more than where disposable furniture and cleaver wielding Muppets hail from, it's now also a post tag, as it seems to have its own vibe in the funny shit dept.
Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers [atomfilms]
Quickly descried at IMDB as "A glimpse of four brothers' daily obsessions with chickens, rap music, and aliens", James Clauer's cool, slightly bleak 13 minute short The Aluminum Fowl has co-producer Harmony Korine's weird-assed feel all over it. (Warning contains graphic cockfighting of the not Brokeback Mountain variety.)
Upload by handkerchief
Also rich with the Korine is the new(-ish) Cat Power video Living Proof, brought to our attention by Susannah Breslin.
Slightly ahead of its time Canadian media outlet Zed TV presents Sean Ellis' Academy Award-nominated short film Cashback . The short won the "Best Narrative Short" award at New York's Tribeca Film Festival, and is a little NSFW, so watch it under your covers with a flashlight when your parents are watching a movie on TV.
Cashback [zed.cbc]
Thanks to Stan
The previously mentioned Project 15 comes to fruition. Here's a trailer for the resultant movie. We could watch this all day.
Here's an amusing web series following the exploits of Pittsburgh radio station WANT FM. Sorta feels like a mashup of WKRP and The Office, but not nearly as sucky as that unfortunate description which we just pulled out of our asses actually makes us picture. Ongoing since the summer of 2003, it's currently in the last half of its third season. If it's new to you, there are pretty well stocked archives you can go back through to catch up.
Here's a nugget of solid joy that will make the afternoon for more than a few of you-- Si Quieres Puedes: Alex Montoya + Raul Navarro's "short film that explores the limits of human will." Is that the preferred euphemism these days?
Thanks to Susannah.
Si Quieres Puedes (aka If There's a Will there's a Way) upload by polpope
Andy King's 2004 sex ed ad for Canada's Planned Parenthood Federation.
We feel compelled to note that Deejay Rapper is the man behind the feel-good zombie ninja video of the year. Yes.
Thanks to feeble
Highly amusing short featuring man's man-- fuck that, Ted Nugent's man endurance predator Willy, who hunts his game in the wild mano-y-whatever style, forgoing guns for pinching his prey on the neck like Spock. From the creator(s) of that Bobby Dukes paintball improv flick from last year. Wouldn't shock us if this turned out to be a viral for underarm stuff, but that could just be ad-induced paranoia.
By the way, how long is the media going to give a shit about this stupid Cheney hunting thing? Of all the wonderful achievements our little draft-avoiding Patton has done for us in recent years, shooting a republican lawyer hardly seems like the one to get upset over.
"In this short clip, John Waters announces that 'no smoking is allowed in this theatre' and goes on to encourage people to smoke anyway, as it keeps the ushers busy."
Via the YouTube user who brought us Please Kill Mr. Kinski yesterday
PGA Tour golf player / sports mouth Bryant Gumbel gassed on about having to cover the tedious Winter Games on his video essay bit of HBO's Real Sports recently, claiming the nearly all Caucasian pack of athletes was like watching a "GOP convention." Fair enough, but this bit of wit coming out of Gumbel is amusing because Gumbel is probably best known for going on about the rampant racism in sports whenever the soapbox presents itself. A few of the more humorless villagers are grabbing torches over the comment. Anyway, here's Robert Smigel's TV Funhouse version of Gumbel enjoying an erection over Survivor when he was a part of CBS's Early show a few years ago:
Karl Pilkington, the drug trip of a producer for the Ricky Gervais Xfm radio show seems to be making the rounds just now, mostly because of the Guardian Podcast. Here are three short bits from YouTube feauting the magic that is Karl:
Meet Karl Pilkington:
Ricky Gervais & Karl Pilkington - Nature Of Infinity:
The Ricky Gervais Show - Behind the Scenes:
The Nut-Punch: territorial pissing to some, foreplay to others, the humble nut-punch can solve many a problem. Well one kind of problem-- excessive ball comfort. Anyway, here's a convenient way to let others know your care about them, or at least how their balls are, or that you're sick of this "sharing" your Pop-Tarts shit that's going on back at the house.
Nut-Punch [takethatproductions.com]
Thanks to John
Here's a highly amusing late 90s short film by David Schmoeller, the poor bastard who tired one time to direct the subtle blend of Heinrich Himmler and Iggy Pop-on-trucker-speed that is actor Klaus Kinski in his Hitler Youth horror flick Crawlspace. Kinski's temper and quirks are legend, his antic on this particular set were so out of hand that apparently the film's investors began plotting to kill Kinski for the insurance money. Hence the title. Read a pretty tight thumbnail of Klaus' funtime hellride express at Wikipedia.
Via WFMU's Beware Of The Blog and YouTuber doradogold
Roommates -- can't live with `em, can't indulge in homosexual fantasies about them easily. A new one from The Post Show.
Wet Dream [The Post Show]
We don't have to break down what's going to happen in this one for you, do we? Of course not. You know, and you're still going to watch, just like we did. We're simple people, amused by simple things. Wanna get a beer later? We'll bring some car keys to dangle under the bar lights, it'll be awesome. Until then lets watch this guy incinerate some used carbs.
http://dbureau1.securesites.net/site/dev/core/_media/archive_detail.php?id=13&path=other/Lucky_-_Short_Film.mov
A stunt performer himself, Nash Edgerton's short film Lucky reminds us of the chase sequence in Raider Of the Lost Ark-- not as grandiose, but it's got that "from fucked, to on top, to fucked again" thing going on, and some fairly nifty camera work as well.
From the "we dare you to link to anything on our site in support of your fucking write-up, you blogging pansy" website that is The Directors Bureau. Click "directors", then click "Nash Edgerton" to learn more. Or don't, we're not your mother.
Lucky [The Directors Bureau]
Howard Dean's run at the presidency killed a lot of things very dead. Our faith in the average American voter and his ability to see past the opposition's calculated hype-up of a frickin' yell for instance, but this is not a political short we're linking to here. This is a particularly well directed short film all about love, and how hap was restored to the hapless at a Dean rally in 2004.
Hello Dean [Huffington Post]
Here's a video described by creator Andrew Rosenblum as " The first of (hopefully) many episodes of a gaming review show inspired by Judgement Day on G4TV." Also described by tip-dropper Totee as "not so much a video as it is a contest with yourself to see how long you can watch without eating your own face."
We link here not out of schadenfreude, but out of familiarity -- we dare any video camera owner out there not to have exactly this footage lurking in their sock drawer. Right next to that big knobby sex toy which totally doesn't make you gay, and that hash you paid $800 for which is in fact mostly used chewing tobacco. We'd pay to watch this. Fuck Judgement Day.
Great Mystery Science Theater 3000 pre-show short hors d'oeuvre. From their coverage of Ed Wood's The Sinister Urge.
Thanks to Flaggboy42
Here's a neat little stop-motion animation centered around the Tom Waits tune Tabletop Joe from filmmaker Katrina Whalen. A college final, it's got a good feel to it that suits the music.
Tabletop Joe [corduroyroads.com]
A few other short bits with that same early morning mood are to be found at the Corduroy Roads site as well.
An ostrich, one which is down. It wraps its beak around the speak. It squawks to the flock. The bird with the word.
This filled us with a level of glee which is probably illegal in Utah.
Awwwstrich [Huffingtonpost.com]
Thanks to Jake
Are You The Favorite Person of Anybody?, Miranda July's contribution to previously mentioned McSweeney's DVD shorts compilation "magazine" Wolphin.
Are You The Favorite Person of Anybody? [Salon's Dog]
BTW, if you get the chance, see Miranda July's really excellent You And me And Everyone We Know, from which we get the image above. Occasionally you'll run into a review depicting it as pseudo-artsy self-indulgent wankery, but if it were like that, someone named "dong resin" probably wouldn't be reocmening it to you, now would he. For example, it's got infinite pooping in it. Try to picture that in your mind.
Infinite.
Pooping.
"True Love is but a +2 Broadsword away. "
For weeks we've been waving off tips for this short film like complete morons because we mistakenly thought we'd seen it already. We're not sure what we thought it was, but Fear of Girls is Ryan Wood's goof documentary on the Role-Playing game culture. Did quite well at various small film festivals, we hear.
Fear of Girls [YNG Turk Films ]
Thanks to Mr. Nate
A self-contained short meant to air on the episode of SNL with Scarlett Johansson as hostess and cut for time, Fred Armisen stars as a man stuck on his own (com)plane of existence and misses out on a pretty spectacular evening.
SNL classic short in which Eddie Murphy slathers on a little peach #5 to visit "the other America." A goof on John Howard Griffin's Black Like Me.
While we're SNL-ing it, Prince was pretty tasty this weekend:
First, here's an arty little number entitled "Maggot Leaps From Donut"
It speaks to the human condition straight on, in a way we can all understand easily. Like we pointed out a post or so ago, maggots are the new black. Part of the Huffington Post Contagious Fest.
Then, Hello? Not the Lionel Ritchie video with the creepy head sculpture-- much worse.
To round things out, reasonably adorable Ayumi Hamasaki in an ad for donuts, because she's nothing like maggots or midgets.
The Post Show offers a peek at the do'ns behind the nylon curtain at the blue collar comedy festival. This fails completely by actually being funny and so reveals itself as a fraud almost immediately.
Get It Done [The Post Show]
A 4 minute "mini-sitcom" centered around goofing off at work. If this amuses you and use it to shirk your own job and goof off, the snake head then bites the tail, and the Ouroboros of fucking off becomes complete, thus facilitating the utter takeover of the west by China.
The latest episode goes all Star Trek. Enjoy.
"Ninja and Zombie is a short film and internet serial about the daily lives of a ninja and his roommate, a zombie."
If you're still reading this it means the preceding sentence wasn't enough to motivate you to click the link. We'll repeat it for you stragglers who needed a moment for that to sink in:
"Ninja and Zombie is a short film and internet serial about the daily lives of a ninja and his roommate, a zombie ."
New chapters to be posted weekly.
Ninja and Zombie [Daragh Sankey]
By then dead for five years Lenny Bruce gets (re)-animated thanks to the efforts of San Francisco filmmaker John Magnuson in this 1971 goof on The Lone Ranger. All of the vocal characterizations in this are from a live performance in which Lenny wonders about the realities of being a do-godder in ye olde west.
http://www.youtube.com/w/Thank-You-Mask-Man?v=NE6JWEogq_k&search=Lenny%20Bruce
The tranny with the jammie, the hostess with the mostess, Divine with her 80s rock extravaganza Hard Magic:
Which could only be followed up by Ed Wood's bendy classic Glen or Glenda in its entirety.
Why so much video for one post? Both of these vids come from YouTuber extrodinare Euterpe Jones, who seems suddenly popular everywhere for her taste in uploads to the site. She only wants to be the President of Freedonia.
Via PCL Linkdump and Hip Hop Music, respectively.
David Firth crawls just that much deeper into the K Hole of David Firth with the 3rd Sock toon, Different Types of Soup. On its best day, it would take the most challenging episode of Lost to reach the level of strange of these shorts put out about eleventy billion years, or as they call it in the physics community "one DMV."
Current SNL cast member Bill Hader stars in Nicholas Jasenovec's 2004 short Sounds Good to Me: Remastering the Sting, as Sound Designer Barnaby G. Price, the man charged with recreating the audio for the 30th anniversary of The Sting . A goof on DVD extras.
Thanks to Nicholas
