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How We Build A Better & More Beautiful World

Well, hopefully it doesn’t require us to quite go this far, but who doesn’t love a good machine?

Thanks to Visual News for the tip!

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One Of The Best Short Films EVER: Rendezvous

By Claude Lelouch

And this is on film mind you…

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Keep Reaching For The Stars

Visit theskyiscalling.us to tell Congress you want more of your taxpayer money diverted to space exploration.

Hat tip to BrainPickings .org

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The Greatest & Most Influential Short Of All Time?

Chris Marker’s La Jetee (1962)

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Happy NOT Valentine’s Day

Not that I ever experience such an emotion, but feelings of less than love for one’s significant other do make for good short film subjects. Here stop motion animation delivers the goods. 26,000 images in fact.

Thanks to Flavorpill for the tip!

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Films Are Magic

How great is it to be lost into a short, transported, and then to recognize — know again — what you have known for so long: that movies are magic.

Out Of A Forest from Tobias Gundorff Boesen on Vimeo.

Okay I really like The National, and I really like stop motion, and beautiful lighting — and yes there is a part of me that is a sucker for both nostalgia, innocence lost, and cute furry animals, so…

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What If You Could Escape Your Daily Routine?

I met Steven Briend at the Disposable Film Festival last year. I liked his papercraft stop motion “magic” short PROTEIGON. I just got to see his new short SHUNPO which is a nice bit of dance on film with another tad of cinema magic thrown in with excellent results. Check it out:


SHUNPO by stevenbriand

What if we could escape our daily routine for a moment ? A Step, just one, that could move us miles away from here, in a second; a flash step. A Shunpo.
Shunpo was shot in 6 days in 13 different locations in Paris plus one in Turkey at “Tuz Göllü” salt lake.
The camera used was a Canon 5D Mark III with 16-35 L, 24-70L and 70-200L lenses.