Showing posts with label black-and-white. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black-and-white. Show all posts

01 August 2017

15 May 2017

What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (by Martin Scorsese)



A writer named Algernon (but called Harry by his friends) buys a picture of a boat on a lake, and his obsession with it renders normal life impossible.

06 April 2017

Arrow‘s Paradox (by Jorge Caballero)



At 6 a.m. it begins the day in Arrow's house. Get up, take a shower, have breakfast, dress and leave. Day after day the same programmed actions. This life is annotated and it's impossible to escape.

The name of the short is original of the theory exposed by the American economist Kenneth Arrow in 1950 and demonstrates that its not possible to design rules for the capture of social or political decisions that obey a certain set of reasonable criteria.

02 January 2017

Palíndromo (by Philippe Barcinski)



An ordinary tale told backwards.

Freedub 1 (by Stéphane Elmadjian)



The animal is a thinking human.

A short film combining an industrial techno tune by the band Spira with excerpts from - mostly old - documentaries. Cleverly edited and making a perfect music video (as long as one likes the genre).

23 September 2016

The T-Shirt (by Hossein Martin Fazeli)



Mark is half- American, half-Slovak. And he has strong beliefs. On a trip to Slovakia he meets Tomas, a shop assistant who is wearing a T-shirt that offends his beliefs.

Morning Ritual (by J. Lazarus)



A simple housewife presents her over-bearing husband with a precious gift.

24 March 2016

22 November 2014

Billy's Dad Is A Fudge-Packer! (by Jamie Donahue)



Billy's Dad is a Fudge-Packer is a 2004 black-and-white short comedy film written and directed by Jamie Donahue in her first non-acting effort. It is a parody of the 1950s social guidance films, and depicts the life of a boy learning about adulthood in a traditional family. The apparently innocent account of family life in the 1950s is loaded with sexual innuendo.

05 February 2013

Liar (by China Moo-Young)



One man, a multitude of personalities. Do we ever really know who we are?

Written & Directed by China Moo-Young. Adapted from a poem by Lucy English. Actor: Glenn Doherty. DoP Susi Rowell. Produced by Molly Pope.

26 January 2013

Last Train Ride (by Gokhan Okur & Jigsaw Soul)



A dazzling animation set to the beautiful string music of Jigsaw Soul. Discover your own hidden meanings.

17 January 2013

Bathtime In Clerkenwell (by Alex Budovsky)



This film is about The Great Revolution of the British Cuckoos, who bravely took over London, forcing all the people to move inside the cuckoo clocks.

The song Bathtime In Clerkenwell by The Real Tuesday Weld, composed by Stephen Coates. Taken from the album "I, Lucifer".

02 January 2013

Manderlay (by Paul Barritt)



The narration of a nightmare with goatmen baby ballerinas, a tooth-fairy without a face, scissors and other horrific participants.

03 December 2012

Two Laps (by Owen Trevor)



Val and Pete have been swimming together every morning for the past seventeen years. Once a year they have a race, two laps up and back.

24 November 2012

Tramwaj / Tramway (by Krzysztof Kieslowski)



A boy shyly watches a girl on a tram. Only when he exits the tram, and its too late, does he realize that he must meet her.

Tramway (Polish: Tramwaj) is a 1966 short silent film by Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski, produced while he was a student at the Łódź Film School. The film is included as an extra feature on the American and Artificial Eye Region 2 DVD releases of Kieslowski's A Short Film About Love.

The music by the band Skalpel is not original.

16 November 2012

Victorian Cut-out Theatre #1: Eternal Kiss (by Rob Walker)



A vampire seeks out his nightly meal, but his prey has romantic and sexual expectations of him that he cannot meet.