Showing posts with label Short Film Watch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Short Film Watch. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Vincent - A short film by Tim Burton

Youtube link courtesy: Vinoo Krishnan.

Posted by Murali.

Friday, October 30, 2009

Short Film Watch: The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon

If you've got 10 minutes of free time, there's no better way to spend it...



Posted by Anantha

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Short Film Watch: Terri Timely's Synesthesia



If you didn't get the film, watch this video on the condition called Synesthesia.

Posted by Anantha.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Monday, May 25, 2009

The Big Shave



Presenting The Big Shave. One of Martin Scorsese's early short films. For those of you who haven't seen it, here's a small task: What do you think he's trying to convey through this film?

If what you think matches with what he had in mind, then you should be a genius. Click on the comments to view the answer.

Posted by Murali.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Friday, April 17, 2009

A Link A Day # 124: Philips Carousel

"To celebrate the imminent arrival of the groundbreaking Cinema 21:9 LCD TV, Philips has launched a new website which will act as the dedicated online home of the world's first cinema proportioned television screen.

Found on-line at www.philips.co.uk/cinema, the site is host to an exclusive fully interactive movie, entitled Carousel, directed by Adam Berg with music provided from Michael Fakesch. The 2 minute 19 second cinematic feature is filmed in one continuous tracking shot and offers an exploration into the world of movies being made for the cinema screen through the eyes of the director and the special effects and lighting experts. During playback of the movie, users have interactive touch points in which they can access additional content and feature demonstrations.
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Posted by Anantha.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Short Film Watch: A Day In The Life Of An MC Escher Drawing.

If you're an MC Escher fan like me, you'd love it...



Posted by Anantha.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Bread and Alley

Iranian cinema is everything what Hollywood, Bollywood or for that matter most European cinema isn’t. It’s introspective, reflective, memorable and celebrates storytelling in style. Thereby, offering the viewer an alternative to the vapid excess that constitutes most of mainstream Hollywood or Bollywood cinema today.

Abbas Kiarostami is one of the most influential and brilliant filmmakers to come out of Iran. Known primarily as a feature filmmaker, Kiarostami has a rare trait which most feature filmmakers don't possess. He is equally at ease with short films, documentaries and ad films.

Since, many of you would be familiar with his features, here’s a short that you shouldn’t miss. It’s called Bread and Alley. It was Kiarostami’s first short film which made him famous in Iran. The narration, music, casting and a simplistic storytelling technique you see here is something he adopts in his features too.

Every work of his has left passionate cine-lovers world over, in awe of his genius. This debut piece shot in 1970, moved me a lot when I caught it couple of years back. Check it out. I hope it leaves you with the same feeling.



Posted by Murali

Monday, May 26, 2008

Glass

Glass is a short film by the Dutch filmmaker Bert Haanstra. I saw it for the first time at FTII Pune in 1990 when I did a film appreciation course. The film was introduced to us by Prahlaad Kakkar who, incidentally, has done this course in the 70s. Kakkar told us that he had joined this course at FTII thinking it would be a great way to meet girls. (Well he was speaking for me as well.) Sadly, Kakkar found that that year the class was full of men. Consequently he had no other option but to sit through the sessions with his eye on the screen. He did so, reluctantly, until one day the schedule mentioned the screening of a documentary film called GLASS. Now who would sit through a documentary film in the prime of youth? Well anyone who is obliged into temporary celibacy it seems. Kakkar saw Glass. And his life changed. He never realized that there was this side to film. He never realized that when it comes to expressing the poetry of life no medium is as COMPLETE as film. Kakkar went on to make a career in ad film direction. I saw Glass too. I decided to get into ad film writing.

Posted by Thomas

P.S. My class had people like Ashutosh Gowariker, Renuka Shahane, Krishnamachari Bose etc. I guess GLASS opened their vision too.