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27 Jan 2013

Voice Over

You’re an astronaut marooned on a distant planet, your oxygen nearly depleted as a deadly predator punctures your spacesuit and starts slithering its way toward your torso. No, you’re a soldier on the front lines in World War I, your legs gone and your courage vanishing as you mount one last effort to stop the enemy assault. No, you’re a sailor, tethered to a sinking boat, drowning as you plunge deep down an abyss.

Voice Over is the ultimate acid-test of your abilities to survive extreme conditions. Martin Rosete’s imaginative short, from Spain, comes complete with voiceover in French, and subtitles in English.  H/T Kuriositas

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23 Jan 2013

Chameleon

Alien invaders are threatening to wipe out the human race and populate the Earth. Perhaps the key to defeating them lies with an Army officer, located in Montana several months after being reported missing. The man’s wife is given the dangerous assignment of debriefing the officer, just to be sure he’s not an alien in disguise.

The short Chameleon is the work of filmmaker Sam Lemberg. James C. Burns, who plays the officer, is better known for supplying the vocals for Sergeant Frank Woods in the Call of Duty: Black Ops games. H/T Kuriositas

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21 Jan 2013

Hurrah for the Holidays

Here’s a rarity — the sixth episode of Hal Roach’s “Our Gang” comedy series from 1922. Roach initially produced the series at his own studio, but “Our Gang” really took off after MGM became involved in 1927. All told, 220 “Our Gang” shorts were created over a 22-year-span between 1922 and 1944, and 41 different child actors starred. Roach broke ground, not only by showcasing the antics of poor children, but also by casting both whites and blacks, and showing them living in close proximity and relative harmony. H/T Unknown Cinema

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16 Jan 2013

HUD

What’s the next wave of social media after Facebook? Filmmaker Evan Jarvi conjures up one dystopic possibility in HUD. No, it’s not a remake of the Paul Newman movie, but shorthand for Heads Up Display. H/T Kuriositas

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15 Jan 2013

Lux Aeterna

Usually on Call Me Stormy, we dwell on the mundane and the profane. Today, we’ll get a little more profound and metaphysical. The cornerstone for our inquiry: A probing lecture by Stephen Hawking questioning the origins of life and the universe. But as a segue to Hawking, we present Cristobal Vila’s paean to the eternal light.

The M.C. Escher-inspired artist, based in Zaragoza, Spain, creates short puzzlebox movies using 3-D graphics to illustrate nature and the world at large,  stretching out well beyond our solar system. You might remember him from his work Nature by Numbers, which went quite viral. Here’s his latest effort, with accompanying music by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson. H/T Kuriositas

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14 Jan 2013

The Dippy Do Dah Club

Besides the Little Rascals, Hal Roach also produced a series of comedies called The Dippy Do Dah Club, featuring an all-animal cast. PETA might object to the inclusion of a mock cock fight, but this 1923 episode, The Knockout, is quite hilarious,  with ducks, chickens and dogs all attending the big fight, and monkeys masquerading as the press. Some things never change!

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13 Jan 2013

Gerald

After Mel Gibson is killed by monsters, the United States builds the National Monster Refuge, nestled deep in the mountains. One night, Gerald Cromwell, a young hipster, slays a monster that has strayed off the refuge, saving the lives of several diners and attracting the attention of the beautiful Bethany. Gerald’s roommate Tucker is wary of the girl, but Gerald is smitten. Soon, he will be sorely tested by encounters with athletic d-bags, a blogger and a public access host and his puppet. Worlds collide as Gerald learns about life, trust and love in a time of monsters.

Written and directed by Jeremy Warner, Gerald has played at the Black Hills Film Festival and the Yellowknife International Film Festival. Visit Warner’s website at http://jeremywarnerclassic.com

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24 Dec 2012

Naissance de Jesus

A 1914 silent French short re-creating the birth of Christ. This was one of cinema’s earliest religious dramas, made by the Pathe Brothers studio.

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12 Nov 2012

Last Drop

The bullets fly and the blood flows when big Bertha, a desperate armed robber, sets her sights on staging a holdup at the Last Drop supermarket and liquor store, only to encounter the never-say-die Amber, who is a force of nature within her own right. Tipping their hats to Quentin Tarantino, this French-made animated short was co-directed by four students — Thomas Dufour, Quentin Retif, Benjamin Weislo and Marc-Antoine Cesari — from L’Ecole George Méliès in Orly, outside Paris.  Watch through the end of the closing credits because in a twist straight out of a horror film, the dead keep rising to make one last stab at the brass ring. H/T Kuriositas

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16 Oct 2012
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Black & White (In Colour)

Israeli filmmaker Eran Amir created this fascinating study in color by painting an entire room and all of its contents, including himself, in at least 50 shades of gray. H/T My Disguises

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Amir is the same artist who earlier created this experiment in stop-motion, a seamless music video showing no fewer than 500 people in 110 seconds, edited together from 1,500 separate photographs.

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