Doxology

"Before reaching spiritual enlightenment, one sweater-vested young man must face a dancing Oldsmobile, endure a boozy encounter with God on a frozen tundra, and brush his teeth, comb his hair, floss, Q-Tip, lather and shave simultaneously. "Doxology" combines groundbreaking stop-motion animation techniques and unusual storytelling with the time-honored quest for spiritual awakening."

Tony

A man's sick son leaves his favorite stuffed animal in a hotel. The father travels to the hotel to find the stuffed animal and enlists the help of a few friendly people on the way.

Barackula

Yep, here it finally is, my 100th video post. I hope you enjoy it...it's quite interesting.  Ready for this?
A man in attendance at Harvard Law, Barack Obama, is elected as the president of the Harvard Law Review.  But what he didn't know until he got elected was that all of the Review's leaders are vampires who want to suck Barack Obama's blood and turn him into a vampire.  Oh and it's also a musical.
Weren't expecting that one now were you?

Yellow Cake

A town of bakers is invaded by hungry cats who force the town to bake Yellow Cakes for them.  The baking town is reduced to poverty while to cats splurge and profit off of the Yellow Cakes.  Maybe someone should fight back?

On Time

A man is rejected when proposing to his girlfriend and runs into a man who has a device that can show the future, 30 seconds before it happens. The man finds this interesting and allows himself to fall into this scheme in hopes of bettering his life.
*Note: While this is my 100th post, it is not my 100th short film; this is actually my 98th short film. So we'll do a bit of a celebration in two more.

Love and War

From the director's description: "During her training to become a nurse, Bunny meets, by mere chance, the handsome fighter pilot Bear. Romance ensues and they form a couple. When Bear is about to propose, they are suddenly interrupted by an international conflict. Duty calls and Bear is sent into battle."


Just be warned, this is really an opera so it's in Italian and there are no English subtitles. You can absolutely get the message of the short from the actions and the tone and all but you may not be able to understand exactly what they are saying. Nevertheless, I believe this is really cool.

Moments

What is a moment?
Film from WNYC's Radio Lab

Alma

On one winter day, while wondering the streets, a little girl, Alma, finds a doll in the window of a store that looks exactly like she does. Now of course she just has to check it out.

Stand By Me | Playing for Change

A clip released independently as a short film from the documentary "Playing for Change," Stand by me is a compilation of different street artists around the world singing the popular song "Stand By Me."

Separation

These conjoined twins were separated while they were young yet they still remember and yearn to be attached again even into their old age.  This results in attempts to rejoin themselves.
I do have to add on, this one is pretty creepy.
From the director that brought you The Cat with Hands.

The Cat With Hands

The story of a cat with hands who goes around harvesting body parts of people-seemingly wanting to be a human himself.

Badgered

A badger just wants to be left alone to sleep-but life doesn't seem to want to let him.
Academy Award Nominee.

Be My Brother

A man with down syndrome tries to make friends at the bus stop; charming a woman in, initially a very bizarre manner.

Smoking Will Kill You

Life may seem great...until you think about it. A woman mistakes a man's smoking break-as he stands on the edge of the roof of a building-as a suicide attempt.

Lamb

A blind boy, his pet lamb, and his father, unfortunately find themselves in a time of great agricultural and therefore economic hardship.  The family struggles to put food on the table as tempers rise and people become desperate.'

Mankind is No Island

A film shot only using a cell phone, recording text in ads to make up a poem. This poem comments on the state of two cities, far apart geographically but very close in their traditions and in their hearts.  The poem especially deals with the homeless in both of these cities.

Your Lucky Day

An old man happens to have chosen the winning numbers for the local lottery, winning a multi-million dollar prize.  Suddenly, he becomes the target of a seemingly petty thief that just happened to be in the store, making his rounds so to say, who holds up the old man, with a gun, demanding the lottery ticket.  Gun battles, cover-up plots, and murders ensue as the patrons of the store become involved in a fight for their lives.

Just a note: it is not very often that I happen upon a short of such great value that is not AA winning or anything like that. This was just a lucky find on a blog that I regularly visit. Hopefully you will like it as much as I did.  Although, I do have to say, I am a sucker for violence and plot twists so it could be just a personal preference that makes this short so alluring.  Anyway, I hope you enjoy.  Here is the blog if you would like to check it out.  You may notice that many of the shorts that I feature, if not most, are also covered on this blog, and are covered in much more depth than I ever do with my little summaries.  So I figure I would give my extreme gratitude to the writers of this blog; something that is well overdue.

The Story of Bubble Boy

"In a stab-happy world, a sad outcast wrestles with his demons. The story of bubbleboy is a film about being trapped by the past and redeemed by the future."

Marry Me

A little girl likes a boy who is clearly distracted by something else. He would rather play with his BMX bike than spend time with her. The girl goes out of her way to get him to notice her.

My Neighborhood Has Been Overrun By Baboons

Music video of the song by The Dairy Brothers and really good as a short film, too.

One of Those Days

An old man and his wife encounter some problems on Judgement Day where they find out that his identity has been mistaken for another man's identity: The Impaler.  The old man starts to become irate, going from office to office trying to sort this out.

Words

"Words words words"
A video portrayal of images related to words.