Posted 11/13/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Ilya Chaiken Blacks Out
Shot on a dime, 'Blackout' is a funny, genuinely unsettling look at an unfortunate hookup in the midst of the big power outage of 2003.
Posted 10/23/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Branan Edgens Would Like to Sell You David Lynch’s Coffee
'The Darkest Coffee' functions less as a commercial and more as a four-minute creepfest about the experience of consuming said hot beverage.
Posted 10/16/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Myna Joseph Follows Creepy Sisters Into the Woods
Fair warning: 'Man' is not an easy film to watch.
Posted 10/09/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Jonas Åkerlund Makes a Music Video Without the Music
'The Hidden' features no soundtrack — but it's easy to see from it what makes Akerlund such a great music-video director.
Posted 09/26/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Andrew Cooke Laments the Plight of the Fake Yogi
Andrew Cooke's hilarious mockumentary follows a yogi who might be longing a bit too hard for the trappings of modern life.
Posted 09/18/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker David Bond Flunks Art Class
'Lions Are Green' is about a young colorblind boy who draws a green lion in class and gets called out for it.
Posted 09/12/08 in Vulture
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Filmmakers Nathan and Keary Kensinger Open a Secret Commie Bookstore
It's the best film about a secret commie San Francisco bookstore you'll ever see.
Posted 08/28/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Kentucker Audley Says There’s Gonna Be No Dancing
Audley's short is an intense, despairing look at obsession and the twisted nature of attraction.
Posted 08/21/08 in Vulture
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Here Comes the Story of the Hurricane, Says Filmmaker Paola Mendoza
Mendoza visits her Colombian grandmother as she deals with the wreckage of her Mississippi home following Katrina.
Posted 08/07/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Azazel Jacobs Loses a Wheel
It’s wordless, it’s simple, it’s three minutes long, and we can’t stop watching the damn thing.
Posted 07/25/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Stephen Kellam Mourns Old Penn Station, War Victims
Kellam's 'Forever Yours' is a short and hauntingly simple tale of love and loss during wartime, set in the old Penn Station (utilizing computer graphics to re-create it).
Posted 07/03/08 in Vulture
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Animator Fujio Tanabe Makes the Darkest-Ever Short Film About Home Refrigeration
'Fridges' begins as a touching little film about an abandoned refrigerator trying to get by in the world, but turns into something way more disturbing.
Posted 06/19/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker David Munro Makes a Darker ‘Coneheads’
In 'Bullethead,' a boy is surgically altered to become "the world's most aerodynamic human."
Posted 06/06/08 in Vulture
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‘Bigger, Stronger, Faster*’ Director Christopher Bell Somehow Makes Smoking Look Uncool
Bell's 'Billy Jones' tackles the issue of cigarette marketing on a young boy, giving a portrait of an America dominated by superhero images pre-sold to impressionable minds.
Posted 05/30/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaking Collective Meerkat Media Makes a Better Bee Movie
'Every Third Bite' tackles a topic we’ve heard a lot about in recent months but still find a bit hard to understand: colony collapse disorder (CCD).
Posted 05/22/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Ilya Chaiken's One-Night Stand
'The 100 Lovers of Jesus Reynolds' is a funny little meditation on an East Village girl's many, many love affairs.
Posted 05/15/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Luke Matheny Turns ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ on Its Ear
The style is reminiscent of Wes Anderson, with a hint of David Lynch thrown in, but it’s also quite romantic.
Posted 05/09/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Jared Larson's Dad Thinks You Should Get Out More
It's like the family slideshow we wish we could've had.
Posted 04/24/08 in Vulture
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Filmmaker Nina Paley Urges a Moratorium on Baby-Making
A funny look at the perils of population explosion, 2002's 'The Stork' is an animated mix between '9 Months' and 'Apocalypse Now.'
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