download: linkLe Building is an animated short film made by a team of 5 french students (Olivier Staphylas, Marco Nguyen, Pierre Perifel, Xavier Ramonede and Rémi Zaarour) from the animation school "the Gobelins" in Paris, France.
It was made as an opening short done for the Annecy 2005 international animation festival, so it had to be funny and/or punchy. After developing the story to find an idea all the team members liked and would be happy to work on, they came up with a simple one. A grandmother wants her neighbour to stop singing so loud -- and the main focus of the film ends up being the crazy chain reaction which follows. Its a pleasure to watch.
Hotel Chevalier is a short film by director Wes Anderson, released in 2007. Starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman, the film acts as a prologue to Anderson's 2007 feature The Darjeeling Limited. The 13-minute short takes place in the eponymous hotel some time before Schwartzman's character, Jack, meets his two older brothers in India. The film was screened out of competition alongside The Darjeeling Limited at the 64th Annual Venice Film Festival. It was shown in North American and British theaters attached to the beginning of (and credited as "Part One of") The Darjeeling Limited. A WOMAN REPORTED, directed by Chris J. Russo (5 mins., USA). Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival.Moira Kelly (The West Wing, One Tree Hill) stars in this gripping thriller about a woman's determination to escape a hate crime and return to the loving arms of her girlfriend. (Inspired by the Ambrose Bierce short story An Incident At Owl Creek Bridge.) |
 DANI AND ALICE, directed by Roberta Marie Munroe (12 mins., USA/Canada).Yolanda Ross (Stranger Inside, Shortbus) stars in this powerful, high-gloss indictment of lesbian domestic violence. WARNING: This film contains scenes of graphic violence. |
 FROZEN SMILE, directed by Silas Howard (7 mins., USA).From By Hook or By Crook, Exactly Like You writer-director Silas Howard, this candy-colored comedy serves up a quirky portrait of a butch and her crazy family! |
 EVERYTHING GOOD, directed by Elizabeth McCarthy (17 mins., USA). Audience Award: Best Short, Fire Island Film FestivalA woman takes a risk and orders a call girl to fulfill her perfect lesbian sex fantasy in this crowd-pleasing bittersweet comedy. |
 SAINT HENRY, directed by Abigail Severance (19 mins., USA).Ashleigh Ann Wood (Bloodknot) stars as a girl named Henry who enlists her gay best pal (Max Van Ville, The Standard) to help search for her father in this moody and gorgeously produced drama. |
 BLOW, directed by Marie Craven (7 mins., Australia).This glossy Aussie short is the sweetest schoolgirl crush movie you've ever seen. |
 TRANSIT, directed by Kerry Weldon (4 mins., USA).Enjoy the simple pleasures of lesbian cruising, subway style! |
 HALF LAUGHING, directed by Michelle Ehlen (12 mins., USA).You'll laugh, you'll cry. It takes a lot of courage for a butch lesbian to face her mother's homophobia on a trip home for Grandpa's funeral. |
 TINA PAULINA: LIVING ON HOPE STREET, directed by Barbara Green and Michelle Boyaner (10 mins., USA).A riveting and inspirational documentary portrait of a lesbian living on the streets of downtown Los Angeles. |
 THE BLACK PLUM, directed by Meredyth Wilson (15 mins., USA).A poignant, evocative fantasy about a young tomboy's journey away from her restrictive home. Stars Kip Pardue (Loggerheads, Thirteen, But I'm a Cheerleader). http://rapidshare.com/files/181842877/LsbnShrtFlmFstvl.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/181852919/LsbnShrtFlmFstvl.part2.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/181867391/LsbnShrtFlmFstvl.part3.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/181908198/LsbnShrtFlmFstvl.part4.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/181914860/LsbnShrtFlmFstvl.part5.rar rar pass: tsou_li http://cinelez.blogspot.com |
How many different things can happen for only 10 Minutes. The film won the award for the best European short film in 2002.
This short film, as its title indicates lasts only 10 minutes, but it tells a much longer story which unravels only in our imagination upon seeing the end of the film. While 10 minutes in someone’s life mean nothing, they can be fatal in another: a boy and his loving family, tragedy in a war-torn city, death and destruction. All in just ten minutes. The film follows two simultaneous story lines: one set in Rome, and one in Sarajevo, in 1994, the worst time of the war in Bosnia. Although the Rome part was not filmed on the original location, that does not take away anything from the quality of the film, it was just a symbolic element anyway. Cast is great, story is very compact and well written, direction dynamic and precise. There is nothing out of place in the film: well structured, stripped of false pathos, realistic, it is very straight forward. In other words, this is a jewel of a film, and it was not by chance that it won the award for the best European short film in 2002. 10 minutes for me is definitely one of the most moving and powerful films about wartime Sarajevo. Behind the scene: I read that the director Ahmed Imamovic, in search of Japanese for the role of the tourist, had to go to the Japanese Embassy in Sarajevo and ask one of the staff to perform in the film. Luckily for the director, the Embassy allowed one of their employees to star in the film.
The story tells how SERBS have killed civils, old people and children!
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Das Rad (English title: Rocks) is a German animated film written and directed by Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel and Heidi Wittlinger. It was produced using a mixture of stop motion, puppetry, and CGI animation. The film tracks a hillside from ancient times through the present and into the future, usually moving through time at high speed (so that buildings appear and disappear in an instant) but occasionally switching to real time and showing the inhabitants and objects in motion in their day-to-day existence. The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 2003. And it won several other awards in respectable festivals like the Anima Mundi Animation Festival, Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Sweden Fantastic Film Festival, and the Fantoche International Animation Film Festival. It was produced by the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany.Das Rad (English title: Rocks) is a German animated film written and directed by Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel and Heidi Wittlinger. It was produced using a mixture of stop motion, puppetry, and CGI animation. The film tracks a hillside from ancient times through the present and into the future, usually moving through time at high speed (so that buildings appear and disappear in an instant) but occasionally switching to real time and showing the inhabitants and objects in motion in their day-to-day existence. The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 2003. And it won several other awards in respectable festivals like the Anima Mundi Animation Festival, Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Sweden Fantastic Film Festival, and the Fantoche International Animation Film Festival. It was produced by the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
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Peter & the Wolf (Polish: Piotrus i wilk, also known as Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf) is a short Polish-British-Norwegian model animation film released in 2006. It was written and directed by Suzie Templeton, made in Se-ma-for Studios in L�dz, and has been shown both in cinemas and with live musical accompaniment.
Jamal, a 10-year-old Pakistani Muslim, mistakenly crosses the border between India and Pakistan and finds an unusual ally in a Hindu Brahmin, Bhola. Indian soldiers descend on Bhola's village searching for the so-called terrorist who crossed over. Bhola's neice, Rani, insists they can't let a Muslim into their Hindu home. With Bhola and Rani grappling with the consequences of harboring a Pakistani and their deep-set prejudice against Muslims, Jamal's only hope is the humanity shared by a people separated by artificial boundaries a long time ago.I will share lots of awarded short films with you. Begining with Piotr Dumala's film: Franz Kafka.
In Franz Kafka, Dumala shows us scenes from Kafka's life, from youth, through the ripening of his creative genius to his eventual isolation. Taking Kafka's diaries, letters and novels themselves as its source, the film includes documentary material - from photos taken by Kafka between 1883 and 1924 to images of Prague at the turn of the century.
Dumala's most recent piece is an adaptation of Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment (Zbrodnia i kara) which premiered at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in September 2000 and received the prize for Best Design at that festival. In 2001, Crime and Punishment was awarded the Public Prize at the Summer Film Festival in Kazimierz, Poland, and at the International Animation Film Festival in Espinho. In 2003 Dumala was awarded a Luna de Valencia at the Valencia Film Festival for his lifetime achievement in animation. He received the Albin Brunovski Prize in Uherske Hradiste for his artistic creativity in the art of animation, and a Grande FeFe Award at the FeFe Festival in Warsaw for his artistic independence in the field of animation. Dumala has created four MTV idents: Charlatan won the Broadcast Design Gold Award in Orlando, Florida, in 1994, and was a finalist in the New York festivals. Kafka Meets Dostoyevski received an International Broadcast Design Gold Award in 1996.When we look at the long history of the short film, we see hat it dates back to the technical invention of the cinema because the cinema started with the short film. Appearing as a type of movie as a result of short news and document films' being shown before the film on the performance in 1940s, started to change and became more mature in 1960s. All over the world, particularly in European continent, cinema affected by the impacts of free thinking and societal changes which had a great impact in the era, started to be reshaped as a means of expressing ideas, resistance and controversial opinions. A new cinema generation who were opposing, anarchist and radical and attempting to express what they could not write, draw and say through the outstanding power of the cinema emerged. Experimental cinema, underground cinema were come into being in this era as a type of cinema.
What made the people who were involved in cinema business look for this new understanding of cinema was big changes seen in political and cultural fields and restrictions imposed on the production of the movie makers by the technical restrictions of the era.
Short film genre developed under these conditions generated several very important creative director in 1980s. In addition, directors such as pioneer of the pop-art, experimental film maker Andy Warhol, German short film maker Werner Nekes, who never give up making short films have sustained their existence.
In the not very bright past of the Turkish short film making, there were very few short film makers who did great jobs and caused lasting impact, and very few short-film related activities. The short film-related activities that can be remembered from the past include Hisar short film competition held by
Everybody is making short films..
Having been existent until 90s, 16mm and
Although DV format is considerably new, its superior version, High Definition, is a new candidate for the leading position in showing images. HD and its derivatives are about the give the sense of realness which was converged in standart films. Distribution, being on performance in cinemas, finding saloons, taxing, and legal procedures are concepts outside the universe of the short film maker. The main target is to participate in festivals, mass display, competitions and make their voices heard.
WHAT ABOUT CREATIVITY
This is the real problem... how is the state of expression, creativity and having lasting effect in an environment where a lot of short films are made, the number of festivals and competitions has increased ? In 60s, while the short film makers (including ours) grounded their films on a perspective of cinema, today, short films seem to be made with concerning haste and carelessness. A few examples should be given about this boom of short film production:
When we review the sources and past films produced since 1981, the production by year is as follows: in 1981, only one film was made. From 1981 to 1990 112 short films were recorded. Most of them are
There are quality films among these produced with haste and carelessness. However, when compared to the total, the number of these quality products is very small. Those who are trying hard to make short films are usually young students who have cinema education and planning to have a place in the sector. The starting point of these students in their endeavour to make a short film is its being a reference in the future rather than their preferring short film as a type of cinema. The main target and desire here is to be transferred into long film or advertisement sectors.
Other short film makers also share the same perspective as students. their main purpose is somehow to be a professional and make a cinema film. For them short film is also a springboard a preparation period. Some well-known examples can be given here. Mustafa Altıoklar, Yeşim Ustaoğlu, , whose name we heard of by means of short film festivals in 90s, series director Taner Akvardar, Serdar Akar, Kudret Sabancı, who finished their cinema education in 90s are first to remember.
Most of the short films made are devoid of the basic technical rules, aesthetic, expression opportunities of the cinema, they are produced without much creativity and care. The shortcomings in thematic plot, story, depicting, characterisation, directing actors or actresses, and putting on performance are clearly seen. The short film maker attempts to express something with a short film, but he finds himself in the trap of not telling anything. The real purpose of the film, taking part in a festival or organisation and having one more reference for future career, can clearly be seen in the short film.
All these judgements can be seen a bit merciless and tough. Of course there are quality films in the sector. But they are not enough. However, praising every short film can make the short film makers very proud of themselves, and this may pose a threat to the development of short films. The opinion like the more short films are made, the better it will be for the short film sector may undermine the short film.
RESULT
In the light of all these, we can say that the short film is viewed as an area of freedom for some and stepping stone for others. In any case it is an important cinema attempt. There are differences between its mission and state thirty years ago and now. The most important determinant of this differentiation is outstanding improvements in the image technology. There is a quantity boom in the short films. However, the quality of content and aesthetic has not increased parallel to the number. Now, the organisers of festival, competition and similar organisations encouraging short film production has important role. They should have certain requirements considering depiction, aesthetic, and cinemagrofic values so hat quality products are encouraged. Over time, elimination system treating each product equally, organisations with high budgets, encouraging prizes, and serious organisations will improve the total quality.
As long as the gap between quantitative boom and qualitative deterioration does not close, the future seems to be not bright for the short film. Technology used carelessly, as in every field, will continue to improve by harming the field of art
Dr.Serdar Karakaya-Mugla University / TURKEY
