Tag: short film
Chevrolet – A Holiday to Remember
An evening pause: Yes, I know it is a commercial, but it is right for the season. And it reminds us of the never-ending human desire — not often possible — to always believe all things can be made better. Such a belief enriches us. We should never lose it, no matter how bad things become.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Erik Wernquist – One revolution per minute
An evening pause: A short film that attempts to visualize what it would really be like to be on a rotating interplanetary spaceship, with artificial gravity. Quite mesmerizing.
Hat tip Rex Ridenoure.
Speakeasies Swing Band – Black Swamp Village
An evening pause: Another piece with Catarina Sisinni the lead singer. Seems perfect for Halloween.
Hat tip Judd Clark.
A Millennial Job Interview
Utopia
An evening pause: A short film that describes the world our children and culture are working hard to give us.
Bird Box Studio – Streat
Mechanimations – It’s Worth It
An evening pause: An animation that actually is real and useful, showing the full rebuild of a dirt bike engine.
What struck me is the number of parts and pieces and their complexity. Pause and consider the engineering thought that went into creating this and all such engines.
Hat tip David Eastman.
Josh Tanner – Decommissioned
Sergei Vasiliev – Russian Cyberpunk Farm
An evening pause: Russian-made, and filled with Russian fantasies and reality. Can you tell which is which?
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
Tan Ce Ding – The Masseuse
An evening pause: The future?
Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who added, “What is our responsibility to our devices when they become self-aware? And what will be our responsibility to each other?
Make it Move – Stellar
An evening pause: A cute little animated film about what we may find in our search of the heavens.
Hat tip Gary McDaniel.
Simpals Animation Studio – Dji Death Sails
Joshua Wong – The New Politics
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who accurately describes this as “a mildly amusing short sci-fi film.”
My thought in watching this short film is that I have been watching and reading sci-fi movies and books about a oppressive future imposed by technology for almost sixty years. All were written as warnings of a future to avoid. Instead, it appears we have taken them all as instruction manuals.
Ivashka and Baba-Yaga
A evening pause: An entertaining animated cartoon from Soviet Russia, 1938. It subconsciously reveals much about Russia’s rough society of that time between the world wars. Even in the 1930s Russia was still largely an illiterate peasant culture, less than three generations since the freeing of the serfs and now ruled by Stalin and the communists with an iron hand.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Chris Pritchard – World way: The City of LAX
An evening pause: From the website:
The impetus for “WORLD WAY: The City of LAX” was born in 2013 as I sat on a rooftop in El Segundo, waiting for a shoot to begin and looking out over LA. The incoming planes looked like a highway, evenly spaced and spread across multiple lanes. This led my eye to the end of their path – LAX. I realized I had a fully unobstructed view of the airport, and immediately started capturing timelapses of it. I became fascinated with the many layers of movement that were visible – planes taking off and landing, planes taxiing, ground support equipment moving on the ramp and throughout the airport, passenger vehicles on World Way, passengers on foot outside and inside the airport – all moving at their own unique pace. It made me realize that LAX is a city unto itself, with so many moving pieces and individual people all doing their part to keep it moving.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Deonis Kiroshka – Classical Guitar
An evening pause: Kiroshka made the film. Evgeny Kovalev made the guitar. Andrew Matveenko played it.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
The Interviewer
An evening pause: The most dangerous thing one can do is make false assumptions about people, based on superficial knowledge.
Hat tip Mike Nelson and his sister Carol Nelson.
Departure (or “Space Travel Agent”)
An evening pause: Sadly, I think this short film captures well the cold inhumanity of the coming future, even if it also shows us a technological society capable of routine tourist travel to the stars.
Hat tip Cotour.
Felix Dierich – A Year Along the Geostationary Orbit
An evening pause: The view of Earth in 2016 as seen by the Japanese weather satellite Himawari-8 from geostationary orbit.
Hat tip Thomas Biggar.
Matt Johnson – Texas
Mark Slutsky – Final Offer
Magali Barbé – Strange Beasts
An evening pause: The future appears it will become a very lonely and isolated place, very divorced from reality.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
5secondfilms – Missing
An evening pause: This is undoubtedly the shortest evening pause ever. However. you will probably have to watch it more than once to get it.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Farewell
The Saga Of Biorn
Penny Dreadful
Snack Attack
One Minute Fly
Leaving Home | A Tragicomedy
An evening pause: This does not go in exactly the direction you think it will.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.