Category: Short Films

  • Tetsuya Nakashima’s Rolling Bomber Special

    This parody short film titled Rolling Bomber Special by Tetsuya Nakashima came to my mind recently, which formed part of 2001’s SMAP Short Films collection. This 20-year-old upload by Kurea could’ve been the link I saw when I was in uni and this “clip” became viral. So many old clips gone from the internet, so many viral memories.

    According to its Namu page, it’s the third in the film series, and because the name of the Super Sentai group is “Freshman,” it’s supposed to be a pun on Flashman.

    Stunningly hilarious as it was then. Would love a higher resolution popping up.

    Cosplaying as Zarray, the Army of Evil would be hilarious.

  • La Noria by Carlos Baena

    It’s a beautifully animated and textured short. Spooky enough, but I’m not crying, YOU ARE.

  • Yu Aoi for Hoshikuzu Scat’s Shinjuku Chanson by Shiraishi Kazuya

    I like mentioned back in April [1], Yu-chan is featured on Hoshikuzu Scat’s (星屑スキャット) most recent music video directed by Birds Without Names director Shiraishi Kazuya~ The song, titled Shinjuku Chanson (新宿シャンソン), is featured on Kesho-shitsu (化粧室), the first album of the drag queen group, and was written by multi-talented illustrator-actor-writer Lily Franky.

    ‘Tis a thing of beauty~

  • NSFW: La Nuit Je Danse avec la Mort by Vincent Gibaud

    Look at that trippy animation~

  • Dave Tynan’s Heartbreak featuring Emmet Kirwan

    Sometimes I forget to share some of the short films I find online that I love. I was working on some of the MUBI film submissions and this came, which has just won the Irish Film & Television Academy Award for Best Short Film, which shows Emmet Kirwan doing some slam poetry to tell the story of a teenager who gets pregnant and raises her child, struggling to be an unwed Irish mother from a poor household in modern day Ireland.

    I came to know about slam poetry via Shane Koyczan and his sequence at the 2010 Winter Olympics [1]. xD

  • Art History Bar Fight for Au Lapin Agile

    I forgot to share this! Gobelins is always great for student animation, it seems the shorts they’re posting on YouTube will be feature at the current Annecy Film Fest~ including this fantastic short by Fabien Corre, Sixtine Dano, Thibault Leclercq, Katie Sung Lee, Valentin Lucas, and Andrei Sitari.

    It’s gorgeously animated when a bar fights strikes involving a bunch of artists in 1910, Montmartre.

  • PepsiCo Bring Happiness Home 2016: The Monkey King Family

    Pepsi is prepping for the upcoming year of the Monkey in the Lunar calendar and Chinese horoscope with a commercial on the legendary Monkey King full of nostalgia and tradition. The recount of the generational Monkey King is a bit choppy, but it gets to its point.

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  • Konkona Sen Sharma for Nayantara’s Necklace

    I’m enjoying all these liquor short films [1] that are coming up. I don’t even drink. This time around Indian actresses Konkona Sen Sharma and Tillotama Shome are two neighbor friends despite their seemingly different personalities for a short sponsored by Seagram’s Royal Stag.

    Directed by Jaydeep Sarkar, the short seems to come as… sort of a clash with the image of a whisky brand. But I’ll take it.

    The struggle of concealing one’s self.

    Really hard-hitting ending.

  • Gobelin’s Shudo by To-Anh Bach, Charles Badiller & Huge Weiss

    Always good to keep an eye on Gobelin students. Really nice animation on this short~

    Making Of Reel available on Charles Badiller’s Vimeo.

  • Mahiro Maeda’s Nishi-Ogikubo Animation Short

    Honey, I Shrunk the Kids meets Metamorphosis meets Eega.

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    It’s pretty awesome. You can watch it on AnimatorExpo.com